The major user interface regions of the PATIENT FILE
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The WORKFLOW section of the medical record completely transforms the EHR experience and clinical care. It is much more than just a form.
The Patient File contains the Patient Chart & Patient Workflows. The design of the first is generalizable, the second is use case specific.
In a clinical EHR, the first job of the HOME screen is to be bypassed quickly to get the PATIENT FILE open
The entire EHR can be reduced down to two parts: (1) HOME: patient identification, & (2) PATIENT FILE: see info, enter info
The thousands of tasks in an EHR can be simplified into three major clinical tasks. This simplicity is helpful to understand an EHR’s first principles.
EHR performance speed is very important to the user experience; but their are two very different sources for the cause of slowdowns.
Start with features that are immediately useful to the clinician logged into the EHR. Do not start by promoting delayed benefits for others.
What attributes do clinicians look for in an electronic health record?
Can we build an electronic health record tool that clinicians eagerly want to use over their paper-based workflows?
Who is the true customer in enterprise medical record software? Let’s move more influence downstream to the patient, and those that care for them.
How bad really is the state of many EHRs today? What design problems will EHRs face in the future? Design must achieve a purpose. What is the purpose of an EHR?
See how modular design in an electronic healthcare platform can improve an organization & the software they create
Interoperability between clinical systems is long overdue, but it is not enough to drive the innovation we required in electronic health records.
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How does Knowledge & Orders connect? (EHR Order Entry, Part 4)
Many tools for Order Selection. One tool for Order Customization (EHR Order Entry, Part 3)
Examples of order entry UX in medical records (EHR Order Entry, Part 2)
General requirements for a medication order entry system (EHR Order Entry, Part 1)