Electronic Health Records:
A Better Way to Manage Patient Data?
UI Design
UX Design
Work-In-Progress
Introduction
This is something I have been wanting to work on ever since I
started medical school.
Having worked with electronic health records as a clinician
for the past 2 years, I have identified numerous pain-points
and limitations from existing software.
What better way to kickstart a new academic year and a MSc in
Healthcare & Design than to build a new patient records system
as a sideproject?
Device / Screen Size
I decided to base this design on the iPad Pro. Primary reasons
being the portability and large screen
size that it offers. In addition to this, there are
numerous external add-ons that could be included (such as the
Apple Pencil and keyboard) to aid in the clinician workflow.
Neat features that could be added could include things like
eye attention detection so when the user
looks away from the screen for more than 15 seconds, the
device locks automatically.
Work-In-Progress
I will most likely streamline this post as I add new content
to it in the future. In the meantime, I've showcased some early
wireframe prototypes that I have been working on with their
descriptions above.
I've put all my thoughts into spoiler tags so as to not take
up too much space on the screen. (Sorry for the extra clicks
for those of you who are interested in reading it.)
Wireframing Stage - 22/09/2019
This view is based off existing ED Trackers used in Yorkshire
hospitals.
The yellow buttons at the top allow
clinicians to filter patients by: priority, clinician,
time in department, location, and status.
Status will display information such as "Referred to
General Medicine" or "Awaiting Bed".
The grey rows will be filled with
essential patient information including: name, DOB, age,
hospital ID, NHS number, priority, presenting
complaint, status, quick notes, clinician, nurse,
pending status, NEWS.
Priority would label patients from P1-P5, depending on
how urgently they needed to be seen.
Status would display information such as "Awaiting for
clinician", "Awaiting bed allocation".
I've personally found quick notes to be the
incredibly useful for passing on messages between staff
such as "Awaiting CT ( ), Bloods ( ), then TCI".
The blue tab bar at the bottom of the
screen will allow clinicians to switch between ED patients,
my patients, messaging, resources, and settings.
This menu can be accessed by swiping from the left of
the main screen.
This page gives an overview to the entire ED department,
detailing the number of patients in the department,
breach times, status reports, and more.
The patient view will permanently display information
such as name, DOB, age, hospital number, NHS number at the
top of the screen.
The blue navigation buttons within the
header will allow the user to navigate between the
different areas of a patients' record.
The grey sections below the header will
display essential information such as the patients'
presenting complaint, recent blood results, clinician
notes, patient flags, vital signs, and status.
This view will display notes by clinicans & department
staff. Filter + search functionality
will be essential here.
In addition, a built-in word processor will be
integrated into the app.
This view will display all recent + past results from
the patients' record; highlighting deranged results and
significant changes from baseline.
A graph will also be displayed alongside the data to
provide a visual representation of the results.
This view will have an integrated view for radiology
images. Utilising the performance and display quality of
the iPad Pro to deliver high quality images.
There may also be an option to include photos taken from
the device - such as marking areas of cellulitis virtually
to monitor progress.
And finally, we have clinic letters, discharge summaries,
and the remaining pieces of information that are
essential to building a complete picture towards a
patients' overall health.