Designing a New Electronic Medical Record

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/redesign-electronic-medical-record/

by samratjp • 14 years ago

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codegeek• 14 years ago

great. Just signed up.

kyro• 14 years ago

This is right up my freakin' alley. Awesome.

joeblau2• 14 years ago

Oh man, you're the guy that did the cool site face lifts :).

ilaksh2• 14 years ago

Since this is going on github, why not expand it a bit to allow people to submit things like stylesheets for different types of media/screen sizes or even JavaScript code for formatting the CCD XML format or maybe doing different internationalization formats? Anyway the next step after the design is for everyone to try to code the same design, so might as well at least be open to that part of it.

I don't really have time but if I wanted my submission to be considered I would try to cheat that way by creating working JavaScript code that processed XML and spit out different formatted versions for phones vs. larger screens and also different languages.

ry2• 14 years ago

We're having a quick discussion tomorrow - we currently have .HTML. We are going to add .CSS and .JS.

Anything else we are missing?

modulusprime• 14 years ago

Please excuse the off-topic rant: It's my mission right now to change something a little different about EMR design. You're looking at the output. That's wonderful and I am really happy about it. We also need to fix input. EMR/EHR interfaces are mostly terrible; that has significant negative consequences for both patients and providers.

You're looking for an output design that is effective as a physical document. Please consider a follow-up challenge for EMR input UI/UX.

ilaksh2• 14 years ago

Not sure how this thing works but maybe allow people to submit a URL to a working demo?

joeblau2• 14 years ago

Do you know where there are any samples a CCD XML file or better yet, a DTD for their format?

kodisha• 14 years ago

looked up a bit for existing records, and required fields and there is no placeholder for genetics data.

Maybe I'm wrong, or I'm overseeing something but I think that "Patient has inherited malicious BRCA1 mutation" information should be IN patients medical record.

ry2• 14 years ago

we're using the standard set of fields that all EMRs will be required to produce. you can def submit a design that includes those AND how you would represent genetics data.

guylhem• 14 years ago

You are using the very same set of fields that all EMR will be required to use by the government?

So if I understand correctly, you are basically doing what you have been told to do? Good for you - call that corporate software development, but not design, creation, startup of whatever.

Regarding your reply, it's not about the "right" way to represent genetics data, but having any way at all to input that - which seems "absent" in the current model, but maybe I haven't dug deep enough.

Also, $50k for the design that will be used for 6 millions potential clients? Hmm it's like 0.0083 cent per client. If you make a piece of software that successful, it's like selling it for 1 cent apiece on the applestore.

So I guess I'll pass on this one.

BTW there is something funny in the article: "You might even end up working with big EMR startups like Practice Fusion."

Well, yey :-/

I'd rather like to create a new EMR company - the one that'll put the others out of business :-)

Good luck to all entrants anyway.

famousactress2• 14 years ago

Please forgive the semi-shameless plug, but if you're into this we're a team that thinks about this full time, and we're hiring! We're a small startup rethinking the way patients and their caregivers interact with data. Check us out at http://elationemr.com

rjzzleep2• 14 years ago

i'm actually interested in this for different reasons.

ps. got an api?

[edit] forgot to read the profile

famousactress2• 14 years ago

Plans for one! My contact info is in my profile. I'd love to get your input on what you'd like to see in an API.

greyboy• 14 years ago

Cool, having some professional experience in this domain, I'm interested in what you folks are doing.

rjzzleep2• 14 years ago

when you're saying design, you don't mean the actually restructuring, but just the way it's represented correct? so whatever is in the txt stays in the txt

rdl2• 14 years ago

Not at all surprised the VA is involved in something like this -- they are one of the best large EMR/EHR deployments in government and a great system by commercial standards too. They seem to be a decade or two ahead of the active duty military medical system on this. (VistA vs. AHLTA).

There's a new effort to merge both systems onto a new one called OSEHRA (Open Source ...), which should be interesting, but I hope it looks more like VistA and less like AHLTA. I suspect MEDCOM is more powerful politically than the VA, though.

GiraffeNecktie• 14 years ago

They're dedicating a whole $25k for this project. As a prize? Surely the government should be engaging a good UX design shop and spending a reasonable sum of money for a complete design and implementation cycle including user testing.

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