The major user interface regions of the PATIENT FILE
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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?
Build an EHR clinicians want to use
Can we build an electronic health record tool that clinicians eagerly want to use over their paper-based workflows?
Electronic Health Records: Who do we build this for?
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.
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?
OpenMRS 3 - Benefits of modularity in an open-source Electronic Health Record
See how modular design in an electronic healthcare platform can improve an organization & the software they create
Interoperability is not enough
Interoperability between clinical systems is long overdue, but it is not enough to drive the innovation we required in electronic health records.
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)
General requirements for a medication order entry system (EHR Order Entry, Part 1)