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Patient portal & EHR
Clinician workload in EHR design: inbox, documentation and alerts
In one 2017 log study of 471 primary care physicians, desktop tasks took about as long as seeing patients. This article looks at what research measures in documentation, the inbox and alerts, and what design can and cannot change.
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AI in clinical software: showing uncertainty and keeping the clinician in the loop
The FDA's clinical decision support guidance gives designers a simple test: can a clinician review the basis of an AI output and still decide for themselves? This article turns that and other stable sources into screen-level questions.
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Information blocking and the patient portal: what the Cures Act rule changed for design
In the US, the information blocking rule (45 CFR Part 171) bars practices that interfere with a patient's electronic access to their health information, unless an exception applies. The law is stable. What it changes on a screen is timing, wording and what happens next.
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The European Accessibility Act: does it reach a health app?
Directive (EU) 2019/882 lists the products and services it covers. Health care is not named in that list. What the text does and does not say, how it connects to EN 301 549 and WCAG, and what a health team can do whatever the answer for its own product.
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Digital health regulation map: which rule names which standard, by region
The main accessibility and privacy instruments in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Australia, which standard each one names, and what that changes on a screen. No dates, no verdicts.
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Healthcare accessibility lawsuits: what the numbers mean for design teams
Website accessibility lawsuits in the US hit their highest volume since 2022 in 2025. The legal structure behind that number is stable; the number itself is a dated snapshot, and the standard actually named is older than most teams assume.
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RPM UX patterns: alerts, trends and thresholds
In remote patient monitoring, data keeps arriving with nobody present to explain it. Three recurring problems - alert volume, threshold design and trend versus single readings - shape most of the interface work.
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My Health Record sharing by default: what changed for designers
A 2025 law flips My Health Record from opt-in to opt-out sharing. The legal change is settled; what it means is that consent and notice now have to be carried by the interface, not by a one-time enrolment step.
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DDA and healthcare accessibility: the precedents designers should know
Australia's Disability Discrimination Act names no technical standard, but three closed cases, thirty years apart, show what a digital service has to get right - and each maps onto a common health-product screen.
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Clinical dashboard vs patient portal: the same data, designed twice
The same lab result reaches a clinician scanning a dozen patients and a patient opening a portal alone at home. One dataset, two different design problems.
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Health design systems compared: what each covers and when to use it
Six design systems a health product team might start from, and what actually differs between them: scope, audience, format and licence, not which is better.
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