Title :
Usability Evaluation of a Mobile Medical Information System for Military Physicians
Author :
Han, Shengnan ; Tetard, Franck ; Harkke, Ville ; Collan, Mikael
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol. & IAMSR, Abo Akademi Univ.
Abstract :
A mobile medical information system, developed primarily for the purposes of civilian medicine, is expanded to be used in military medicine. A usability study with 7 military physicians at the Finnish Defense Forces was conducted in field conditions in December 2005. Their evaluation of the characteristics and the features of the system, and properties and the features of the mobile device-Nokia 9210 communicator were investigated. The results show that both the mobile system and the device have some degree of readiness for military medicine. Further usability improvements of the system and the device are discussed
Keywords :
health care; medical computing; medical information systems; military communication; military computing; mobile computing; Finnish Defense Forces; civilian medicine; military physicians; mobile device-Nokia 9210 communicator; mobile medical information system; usability evaluation; Art; Buildings; Costs; Databases; Information systems; Information technology; Medical information systems; Medical services; Military communication; Usability;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2007.587
