Healthcare Information Technology Exam Guide for CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician and HIT Pro Certifications

Technological Advances in HIT and User Interfaces

A key component or dimension of HCI is the human dimension—or cognition, knowledge, skills, and understanding of the user interacting with a computer. The technology itself is another important consideration of HCI in healthcare. The design and build of computer-user interfaces have advanced significantly over the past several decades and continue to evolve and improve rapidly. The typical user interaction with healthcare computer systems up until the 1970s involved command-line interactions recalled from memory and entered on a keyboard to create and edit patient files and access data from laboratory and pharmacy systems. The subsequent development of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) greatly ...