A brief survey: Usability in healthcare

Improvements in usability are essential for the health care industry. Preventing errors, improving efficiency, and making the systems easier to learn is a tall order for this domain. These systems fail because of loss of productivity and steep learning curves. The study presents a brief survey of usability. It examines the importance of usability according to some of the recent trends in domain. It provides an analysis according to various parameters among those trends. It proposes some features to have an appealing and responsive user interface that provides a rich overview of data. The aim of the study is to help in improving the health care quality and performance by building adaptive user interfaces.