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Simplicity and usability: lessons from a touchscreen electronic medical record system in Malawi

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              Interactions  Volume 18, Issue 6
              November + December 2011
              82 pages
              ISSN:1072-5520
              EISSN:1558-3449
              DOI:10.1145/2029976
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