Start with features that are immediately useful to the clinician logged into the EHR. Do not start by promoting delayed benefits for others.
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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.
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.
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)
EHR Design - OpenMRS Lightning Talk (Dec 2018)
5 minute lightning talk on electronic health record design
OpenMRS 2018 Conference Brainstorm Session
Summary of 1551 ideas generated in one hour at the OpenMRS 2018 Conference
Workflows - 3 Levels of Complexity
#EHR workflows should be assigned in real-time, based on the patient’s issues and resources available.
Concept Electronic Health Record - April 2016
Cool EHR user interface mockups - The Concept Electronic Health Record - April 2016
Is this true? Confirming validity of Past Medical History data
The truth of medical data rests on the ability to validate it against primary source material
Is this true? Problems with Past Medical History data
“Do not believe anything you read in the patient’s chart - it is full of lies”.