User-Centered Design of a Clinical Tool for Shared Decision-making About Diet in Primary Care.

Background: Health information technology is a leading cause of clinician burnout and career dissatisfaction, often because it is poorly designed by nonclinicians who have limited knowledge of clinicians' information needs and health care workflow.

Objective: Describe how we engaged primary care clinicians and their patients in an iterative design process for a software application to enhance clinician-patient diet discussions.

Design: Descriptive study of the steps followed when involving clinicians and their at-risk patients in the design of the content, layout, and flow of an application for collaborative dietary goal setting.