Display of the patient age calculated based on their birth date.
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Should the Family Name be written in uppercase or title case?
Standards found inside and outside healthcare for the display of patient’s names
Patient Name Display (EHR Conventions)
Basic convention when displaying the patient’s name in the EHR.
Examples of how different companies and products display the date.
There is wide variation between languages in the number of characters required to abbreviate a month’s name.
Standards for the display of dates found within and outside of healthcare
Date Display - Long Date (EHR Convention)
Convention for writing the long date format in healthcare documentations.
Date Display - Short Date (EHR convention)
Convention for displaying the short-date in the electronic health record.
Navigation options starting with mobile
There are a limited number of common navigational patterns for mobile that scale to desktop
PATIENT FILE: Major UX Regions
The major user interface regions of the PATIENT FILE
The Patient Workflow: it's not just a form.
The WORKFLOW section of the medical record completely transforms the EHR experience and clinical care. It is much more than just a form.
What is the Patient File? - EHR UX
The Patient File contains the Patient Chart & Patient Workflows. The design of the first is generalizable, the second is use case specific.
Ways to search for a patient in the EHR
Review of 6 different strategies to search for patients
Primary Purpose of the EHR HOME screen
In a clinical EHR, the first job of the HOME screen is to be bypassed quickly to get the PATIENT FILE open
Simple EHR workflow: only 2 screens
The entire EHR can be reduced down to two parts: (1) HOME: patient identification, & (2) PATIENT FILE: see info, enter info
The 3 (+1) essential tasks of an EHR
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.
Slow electronic health records: two root problems
EHR performance speed is very important to the user experience; but their are two very different sources for the cause of slowdowns.
Make the EHR immediately useful for users
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 EHR?
What attributes do clinicians look for in an electronic health record?