title: A biomedical informatics perspective on human factors - How human factors influence information technology adoption.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to select and summarize excellent research published in 2010 in the field of bio-medical informatics human factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the activity and new trends in this field, from a selection of worldwide research papers published during 2010.
  
  
  RESULTS
  this year again, healthcare information technology (HIT) adoption occupies a central role in the field and leads to research focused mainly on measuring impact and factors influencing it. One of the selected papers especially dissects the anatomy of a nationwide personal electronic health record adoption failure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Due to the vast and increasing amount of excellent works, choosing the best papers in human factors is a challenge. More and more the published work takes into account fundamental principles expressed in Grudin's Laws, one form of which is: "When those who beneût from a technology are not those who do the work, then the technology is likely to fail or be subverted.".
authors.affiliation: University Hospitals of Geneva, Department of Medico Economic Analysis, Geneva, Switzerland. rodolphe.meyer@hcuge.ch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics