congratulations

The latest edition (second edition) of the textbook Human Computer Interaction in Healthcare: The Role of Cognition is available to download as a PDF or EPUB from Springer. Congratulation to the editors Andre Kushniruk, David Kaufman, Thomas Kannampallil, and Vimla Patel.Their update “addresses key gaps in the applicability of theories, models and evaluation frameworks of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)” as well as “reviews key topics relevant for biomedical informatics, computer science and social science in healthcare.”

This book is part of Springer’s series on Cognitive Informatics in Biomedicine and Healthcare.

our latest Research Publications

2025

2024: A Year of Nursing Informatics Research in Review

Cognitive-socio-technical theory: Application and use in health informatics

Considerations for adapting digital competencies and training approaches to the public health workforce: an interpretive description of practitioners’ perspectives in Canada 

Current and Future Directions Using Virtual Avenues for Care Delivery Across the Cancer Continuum

Human factors and usability engineering research methods in health informatics

The Impact of the Burden of COVID-19 Regulatory Reporting in a Small Independent Hospital and a Large Network Hospital: Comparative Mixed Methods Study

Involving Vulnerable User Groups for Designing eHealth: A Designers’ Perspective

The NAO Robot in Healthcare and Education: A Scoping Review

Nursing Informatics Entry-to-Practice Competencies for Registered Nurses

The Pepper Robot in Healthcare: A Scoping Review

2024

Barriers to and Facilitators of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Health Care: Scoping Review

Digital Competencies and Training Approaches to Enhance the Capacity of Practitioners to Support the Digital Transformation of Public Health: Rapid Review of Current Recommendations

The Impact of Electronic Prescribing on Pharmacist Work, Workflow, Medication Errors, Productivity, and Patient Out-comes in Community Pharmacies: A Scoping Review

Virtual Cancer Care Effectiveness and the Role of Nursing: A Scoping Review

HCI-modelling for improving the clinical usability of digital health technologies

Clinical Practice in a Digital Health Environment Best Practice Guideline.

Empathetic and emotive design: a scoping review

Empathetic and Emotive Design Heuristics: Preliminary Results of Their Application to Evaluating Survey User Interfaces

A comprehensive framework for Hospital@ home care models

Empathetic and Emotive Design Heuristics

Canada’s Digital Health Workforce: The Role of Innovation, Research and Policy

Canadian employers’ perspectives on a new framework for health informatics competencies

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