Usability Analysis of Archetyped Interfaces for the Electronic Health Record: a Comparative Study

Few studies about OpenEHR standards assess usability aspects. This paper aims to evaluate archetyped interfaces, built by a user interface building tool, with respect to usability requirements of health care professionals. Such an assessment is carried out by comparing two user interface building tools. We carried out experimental tests with Health professionals to evaluate the generated graphical user interfaces by a standard openEHR tool and a framework proposed by researchers to build Health applications dynamically using archetypes. Quality in Use Integrated Map (QUIM) and Questionnaire for User Interface Satisfaction (QUIS) questionnaires were used to evaluate the usability aspects. The Likert Scale was adopted to evaluate the interface concepts of the tools, such as efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction. A T-student test was performed to compare the results, which showed that the second tool achieved better ratings in all the analyzed concepts when compared to the first tool, all being statistically significant. The usability characteristics raised by the users are listed. The conclusion is that the interface generated by the second tool brought more user satisfaction in comparison to the first tool.