Electronic Medical

Records&

Usability

-Pearl Somani

November 19, 2014 UX Boston

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Pearl Somani

• Interaction Designer at HighRoads

• We build a portal which does compliance of Insurance

documents for employers and insurance companies like

BCBS, UPM

• Design GUIs for Medical devices

• Design UX and UI for Oncologists who were working on

personalized medicine for Cancer Patients.

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Health Care Cost of GDP

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Electronic Medical Record

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Usability Problems

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01. Lack of Readability

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02. Use of Technical Jargons

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03. Spend Less time with

Patients

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04. Patient Identification Error

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05. Inconsistent Format

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06. Wrong Medication Event

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07. Delay in Treatment

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Make Our Medical Reports

Personalized

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What is the Take Away?

• For Doctors

• Who is the patient?

• Why is he/she here today?

• What are the treatments/tests

done so far for the problem he

is here for.

• What is the History?

• What are his other problems

…

• For Patients

• What has happened to me?

• Where do my numbers lie?

• How did it happened?

• How can it be Prevented?

…

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Other factors to consider

• Colors

• Group Information

• Organize Data

• Graphical Representation of Data.

• Design for Color Blind (ADA)

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Thank You.&

Questions ?

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