title: Usability evaluation of mobile medical treatment carts: another explanation by information engineers.
abstract: Healthcare services integration is a critical task as it attempts to reform the user practices. In response to the request of facilities upgrade, we perform a usability evaluation of the mobile medical treatment carts (MMTC) installed in the Emergency Medicine Department of our healthcare enterprise. A survey conducted in August 2006 identified that our experimental area needs some improvements to support the MMTC adoption. For example, the MMTC can accompany with several popular nursing care items. Follow-up several undertaken investigations indicated that our expectation of the MMTC solution had been reached. Given the evident heterogeneity of viewpoints, it is imperative for a healthcare enterprise to broadly ascertain the requirements of end users before investing in any information technologies.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Tsan-Nan
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Chien
authors.forename: Sung-Huai
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: Po-Hsun
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Ying-Pei
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Sao-Jie
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jer-Junn
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Luh
authors.forename: Heng-Shuen
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jin-Shin
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lai
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D019451:Information Management; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D013624:Taiwan; D013685:Telecommunications; D014584:User-Computer Interface