5 July 2007
Intel Corporation has beseeched the healthcare IT vendor community to build ‘elegant’ devices that exhibits an understanding of how people employ technology.
Speaking at the annual summit of healthcare IT leaders, Douglas Busch, vice president and chief technology officer at Intel’s Digital Health Group, explained his companies dedication to a ‘user-centred development process’ that took as its point of departure the way healthcare providers interact with information technology.
“I believe that vendors generally have not understood how people use technology,” Busch told the audience, “We need to better understand what it is that makes technology both useful and usable and then make our solutions more elegant.”
Busch said that an “elegant” product would be one that was truly user-centred in its design. To illustrate his point, he described the development of Intel’s Mobile Clinical Assistant, a portable tablet-like device that can “record, retrieve, identify, verify, and document” patient information at the point of care.
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