1. Details on usability testing, as well as test scripts, will be sent
to testers.
2. Registration is one of the areas to be tested, template additions to
CPRS is another.
3. Right now, the best way to provide input on product design for
Version 1.0 is through participation in the usability and field test
processes.
4. Details on field testing will be posted on the CMS web site in the
near future. I'll keep this list informed.
Mike
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Michael,
1. Where is there a more detailed description of the
usability testing that offices are being invited into?
More than:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/quality/Call.pdf
2.Are you testing usability of new registration for the most
part?
The .pdf doesn't really come out and say this.
Presumably this stage is mostly the new registration
system grafted to CPRS for encounter composition/retrieval.
I doubt that a 4 hour visit to a test site will be doing
usability testing on CPRS itself since any change to these
encounter composition/retrieval tools would be way down on
the list of priorities.
3. Does there exist a discussion group built around the
inner circle which designs the components to be tested?
I have never seen such an announcement.
There are many models for surrounding a work group with a
larger community that is tiered. I recall a description of a
major new biblical translation where the experts doing the
real work posted in a small open forum. A much larger
interested community "looked in" with read only access. All
inquiry and suggestions outside the inner circle were
managed through a moderator, forcing them to be pertinent
and supportive rather than intrusive.
4. When will installation be a part of testing?
All the "modular" changes to Vista-office could be
tested centrally (even using an ASP model) except
installation would then be an oxymoron. But we know that the
goal is to eventually get the software out to many
installations, so it would seem that sooner rather than
later, you would need Beta testers starting with the triad of:
1. Installation tools:
including flexible aids to configuration of existing and
new modules
2. CPRS:
CPRS can still compose a narrative and carry out
document management until other things arrive, even if
billing management with HL7, lab interface etc. and other
modifications are a long way off. Wouldn't it be better for
parties to have CPRS tools understood before embracing the
other parts (modular is the declared "approach")
3. Registration
Obviously the document management of #2 cannot function
without #3.
I point out that this triad allows for the use of Vista
office at least by a subset of practices that can tolerate,
having billing and lab operated totally separately until
the day that the other modifications arrive. This
constituency may contain some of your best testing partners
as you scramble for the remaining pieces.
Looking forward to more info
Tyrus Maynard
Michael Ginsburg wrote:
> We are soliciting for clinicians and their staffs to participate in
> usability testing of VistA-Office EHR. See the Call for Participation
on
> the CMS web site: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/quality/pfqi.asp
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Mike Ginsburg
> Project Manager
> Iowa Foundation for Medical Care
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> 410-419-9371 - Cell
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