Senathirajah, Yalini | Digital Healthcare Research

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety

Description

This project will study the impact of design on providers’ interactions with the electronic health record and identify strategies to enhance design to improve patient safety.

Grant Number

R01 HS023708

Principal Investigator(s)

Senathirajah, Yalini

Navigation in the electronic health record: A review of the safety and usability literature.

Citation

Roman LC, Ancker JS, Johnson SB, et al. Navigation in the electronic health record: A review of the safety and usability literature. J Biomed Inform 2017 Mar;67:69-79. PMID: 28088527.

Principal Investigator

Senathirajah, Yalini

Project Name

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety

Use of eye-tracking in studies of EHR usability - the current state: a scoping review.

Citation

Senathirajah Y, Borycki EM, Kushniruk A, Cato K, Wang J. Use of eye-tracking in studies of EHR usability - the current state: a scoping review. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21;264:1976-1977. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190742. PMID: 31438436.

Principal Investigator

Senathirajah, Yalini

Project Name

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety

Evaluating and Enhancing Health Information Technology for COVID-19 Response Workflow in a Specialized COVID-19 Hospital in a Medically Underserved Community

Description

This research will study how a safety-net hospital responds to a pandemic, specifically COVID-19, to identify how information needs are met and how decisions are made and communicated to other individuals internal and external to the institution.

Grant Number

R01 HS028220

Principal Investigator(s)

Kaufman, David R.

Senathirajah, Yalini

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety - Final Report

Citation

Senathirajah Y. Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety - Final Report. (Prepared by SUNY Downstate Medical Center under Grant No. R01 HS023708). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2021.

Principal Investigator

Senathirajah, Yalini

Project Name

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety

Mapping the electronic health record: A method to study display fragmentation.

Citation

Senathirajah Y, Wang J, Borycki E, Kushniruk A. Mapping the electronic health record: A method to study display fragmentation. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;245:1138-1142. PMID: 29295280.

Principal Investigator

Senathirajah, Yalini

Project Name

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety

Towards a usability and error "Safety net": A multi-phased multi-method approach to ensuring system usability and safety.

Citation

Kushniruk A, Senathirajah Y, Borycki E. Towards a usability and error "Safety net": A multi-phased multi-method approach to ensuring system usability and safety. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;245:763-767. PMID: 29295201.

Principal Investigator

Senathirajah, Yalini

Project Name

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety

The future of mobile usability, workflow and safety testing.

Citation

Borycki E, Senathirajah Y, Kushniruk AW. The future of mobile usability, workflow and safety testing. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;245:15-19. PMID: 29295043.

Principal Investigator

Senathirajah, Yalini

Project Name

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety

Effective usability engineering in healthcare: A vision of usable and safer healthcare IT.

Citation

Kushniruk A, Senathirajah Y, Borycki E. Effective usability engineering in healthcare: A vision of usable and safer healthcare IT. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;245:1066-1069. PMID: 29295265.

Principal Investigator

Senathirajah, Yalini

Project Name

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety

Application of natural language processing to learn insights on the clinician's lived experience of electronic health records.

Citation

Senathirajah Y, Cho H, Fawcett J, Mondejar KM, Cato K, Broadwell P, Yoon S. Application of natural language processing to learn insights on the clinician's lived experience of electronic health records. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 Jan 14;289:81-84. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210864. PMID: 35062097; PMCID: PMC8830606.

Principal Investigator

Senathirajah, Yalini

Project Name

Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety