Functional workstation requirements: clinical perspectives.

This white paper details specific requirements for clinical workstations identified by employees in the Department of Veterans Affairs. The requirements can be grouped into the following five categories: general environmental capabilities, input methods, display features, output abilities, and miscellaneous functionality and features. Clinical workstations meeting these functional requirements can offer a significant enhancement over existing hardware interfaces. Use of these workstations by health care providers could improve their willingness to directly enter data into clinical information systems, increasing the benefits of such systems.