Health IT

Adverse pregnancy outcomes increase infants' risk for mortality and future health problems. Neighborhood physical disorder may contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes by increasing maternal chronic stress. Google Street View technology presents a novel method for assessing neighborhood physical disorder but has not been previously examined in the context of birth outcomes. In this cross-sectional study, trained raters used Google's Street View imagery to virtually audit a randomly sampled block within each Chicago census tract (n = 809) for nine

Study Objective: Providing care in emergency departments (EDs) affects patients and providers. Providers experience high rates of work-related stress. Little is known about the feasibility of measuring real-time sentiment within busy clinical environments. We test the feasibility of measuring sentiment with touch-button terminals in an academic, urban ED.

Methods: Terminals offered a choice of 4 sentiment buttons (very positive, positive, negative, and very negative). They were placed central to physician

Usability of health information technology (HIT) remains a predominant concern - one often exacerbated by clinicians' need to access information created by many different professionals in different settings, often using very dissimilar EHRs or even different configurations of the same EHR. Because of these variations, we argue that we must no longer think of usability as anchored in one setting, one EHR, one data standard, or one type of clinician. Rather, usability must be understood as a collective and constantly evolving process. This paper seeks