The term summative usability testing recently entered the lexicon of medical device manufacturers as they faced the new requirement to validate their product's suitability for its intended use.

Today, manufacturers routinely conduct summative (i.e., validation) usability tests to determine if their medical devices are safe to use “as is,” or if they require user interface design modification ...

A decade after the HITECH Act of 2009 first incentivized EHR adoption, many physicians remain dissatisfied with EHR design and are seeking improvements to EHR usability. Optimizing an EHR so that it ...

Stakeholders have identified the need for a new software application. Business analysts have studied business practices and workflows, defined requirements, and requested functionality. Development ...