Existing standards for the display of the patient age
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Display of the patient age calculated based on their birth date.
Convention for the display of labels with patient identifying numbers
The Role of Design in Electronic Health Records: Past, Present, & Future
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?
Quality in Medicine: Upper vs Lower Limits
It is embarrassing that healthcare does not assess its quality with the same rigour of other industries. Measure medical quality in real-time, in the real-world.
Order Entry UX - First principles: Order + Action
How does Orders & Action connect? Why is healthcare fragmented? (EHR Order Entry, Part 5)
Order Entry UX - First principles: Knowledge + Order
How does Knowledge & Orders connect? (EHR Order Entry, Part 4)
Order Entry UX - Order Selection vs Order Customization
Many tools for Order Selection. One tool for Order Customization (EHR Order Entry, Part 3)
Order Entry UX - Examples of EHR Order Entry & Order Sentences
Examples of order entry UX in medical records (EHR Order Entry, Part 2)
Bed capacity cannot be assessed base on occupancy levels. As occupancy levels (utilization) increases, the queue grows exponentially.
I left out the math, makes this a very short chapter.
Computer simulation in healthcare needs to combine model developers with subject matter experts for best results.
Some high level ideas how to spread evidence-based practices.
Failure Mode Effects Analysis helps proactively study possible sources of risk and ways to mitigate this.