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This paper describes a rigorous yet practical process for evaluating mobile health care products (native and webbased software applications) to identify design issues that present a risk to patients. The process uses a model-based approach to application analysis, combining techniques from human factors, human-computer interaction, safety engineering and patient safety. Examples from mobile products in development are used to illustrate how the process facilitates detection of common design issues. Lessons learned from developing and applying the process also are discussed.

also, the essential differences in their expression imposed by different cultures, of the oneness of nature; of the unlikeliness and, usually, the undesirability of extreme solutions; of the difficulties of one generation imparting values to another; of the honor of patriotism and its moral dangers; of the tendency of power to corrupt; and of the incomprehensibility of life as well as the joy of engaging in the struggle to comprehend it." -Fred Warner Neal Professor, International Relations (1983)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the racial composition of mental retardation (MR), speech impairment (SPEECH), serious emotional disturbance (SED), and specific learning disability (SLD) classes in California during 1981. The basic unit of analysis was 96 Special Education Local Planning Areas (SELPAs) representing all school districts in the state. Using the criteria established by the court in the Diana and Larry P. cases, findings indicate that Hispanic students continue to be overrepresented in approximately one fourth of the SELPAs in MR, SPEECH, and SLD programs. Black students are overrepresented in MR and SPEECH programs in approximately one-fourth of the SELPAs, but in nearly two-thirds of the SELPAs in SLD programs. Minority students are overrepresented in SLD programs more frequently than in other program types.