{"id":3622,"date":"2012-05-02T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carecloud.com\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2025-06-27T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:21:55","slug":"philosophy-of-ehr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/philosophy-of-ehr-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy of EHR: Form and Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to philosopher Monroe Beardsley, aesthetic soundness depends on the function within a particular context. This entails a <strong>marriage of form and function<\/strong> that spills over into anything from interior design to documentary filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>Information technology has become a major focus of the applied aesthetics school of thought. In the video above, CareCloud&#8217;s Director of Product Development Michael Gold analyzes the <strong>conflict between user and system arising from poor EHR design.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We dig deeper into the link between applied aesthetics and EHR design below in the second installment of our <strong>Philosophy of EHR series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Applied Aesthetic Approaches<br \/>\n<\/strong>The relationship between EHRs and aesthetics lies primarily within user experience design and human-computer interaction. By linking behavioral science \u2013 namely cognitive psychology \u2013 with technology design, thinkers and designers can create more user-friendly products that promote dialogue between system and user.<\/p>\n<p>Tools, particularly those that are effectively designed, are interpreted neurologically as <strong>corporeal extensions of the user.<\/strong> This makes usability essential to EHR design, yet it isn\u2019t always given the same level of attention as software features, functions, and technical standards.<\/p>\n<p>The HIMSS EHR Usability Task Force defines usability as the \u201ceffectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which specific users can achieve a specific set of tasks in a particular environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kathleen Harder, director of the Center for Design in Health at the University of Minnesota\u2019s College of Design, believes designers <strong>must take into account the strengths and weaknesses of human information processing<\/strong> to design \u201ccognitively digestible\u201d health systems.<\/p>\n<p>Achieving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/\/blog\/why-design-is-crucial-to-effective-ehrs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">effectiveness and efficiency in EHR design<\/a> comes about as a result of fostering human cognitive performance, which logically contributes to error reduction. \u2018Smart\u2019 designers, or those with an understanding of cognitive psychology, are imperative to good usability.<\/p>\n<p>As communicators, designers think about how information must be presented and understand how altering data in subtle ways has a huge impact on cognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to philosopher Monroe Beardsley, aesthetic soundness depends on the function within a particular context. 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