What attributes do clinicians look for in an electronic health record?
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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.
Pair Together: Design Thinking, Lean Startup, & Agile
Three methods that work well together within the same cross-functional team.
Model for innovation within an open-source community
How does one bring the buzzword of innovation, and principles from The Lean Startup into a large open-source community? This is a conceptual model how.
The Lean Startup: Key themes from the book by Eric Ries
A must read for anyone trying to do something new (within an existing organization, or a new venture).
Speed vs Reusability
Simple two-by-two grid to understand the competing forces of speed versus reusability (/ automation / generalizability).
Healthcare in America is fragmented for patients, caregivers, providers, payers, and the public. Herein lies the opportunity.
Three Levels of Health System Technology
Level 1 to Level 2 is a shift to systems where a significant amount of care is provided by healthcare workers, using digital health tools, in integrated systems.
What is design? How design evolves. Design tips for software developers
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
Modular Design - First principles from the physical world
Pretty much everything is highly modular. The world wouldn’t function without it. Modularity makes it possible to build quickly and cost effectively.
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.
Guns, Van Halen, and Brown M&Ms - Real Time Quality Checks
At the airport I saw a gun appear on the x-ray scanner. Van Halen refused to allow Brown M&Ms on stage. Real-time quality checks are a critical part of any industry.
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)