EHR - Electronic Health Records

We were hired by a company, which has been working on innovations in the Health Care sector for several years in collaboration with doctors and specialists from the Health Care sector. HCS received a grant to research one hypothesis.

The hypothesis was that if the medical data is visualized, doctors will interact faster and treat patients effectively.

HCS challenged the Rondesignlab with a very ambitious goal to transform a lot of different data about the patient’s health into an accessible visualized view.

We should create a visualization of an EHR system that will enable the doctor to quickly explore the patient’s history, especially in urgent cases and for patients with a wide medical history.

As usual, any project starts with the discovery stage. The discovery allows our team to get acquainted in detail with this project, and to look at it from a different angle.

During our discovery, doctors even expressed the idea that sometimes it is easier for them to print a bunch of documents and work with them, than to understand and deal with the system.

The information in the programs has a complicated structure, so doctors should take a long time to analyze. There is no way to get a quick summary in this system to understand what to concentrate on.

With each visit of a patient, there are many records with absolutely different information entered into the system. In the case of hospitalization, the number of informational items can grow up to 50 units. In such a flow of information, it isn’t easy to reconstruct the chronology of events and identify events that could affect health.

Some of the data and types of information aren’t available before the patient’s visit. For example, doctors have no information about which medications a patient recently took at home. In the system, it is a simply made prescription based on a visit.

The hypothesis was that if the medical data is visualized, doctors will interact faster and treat patients effectively.

The main idea was that, in the interface, there would be a tool to view the history of patient visits, recent analyzes, and visits to the emergency.

Also, the detailed view with filters by the hour, day, month, and year, depending on the doctor’s needs, will be available.

We have made the Heat Map with the diagnoses given to the patient to be able to understand what the person is sick with.

The stakeholder has proposed implementing the visualization with the help of the human body, which will allow doctors to quickly understand in which system the problem is and its priority.

As part of the work on EHR systems, it is periodically necessary to compare laboratory tests. Doctors could need to look at individual results, decide how they changed during treatment, and evaluate general indicators during the emergency. The stakeholder has initiated rethinking the lab analysis page to be viewed quickly and easily within the interface.

The stakeholder gave us a task for a block that was supposed to solve the problem of comparing a large number of files. Cause on the original version of the platform, the best thing that could be done was to print all the data and compare it by hanging it on a board or wall. We came up with the panel that collects all the documents for comparison. This panel makes it possible to save documents separately, and filter it by any parameters.

As part of the project, we decided to make the additional interaction between the doctor and the patient outside the hospital, monitor his/ her health, and take medications. We have created an app where the patient will be able to tell about their well-being and get in touch with a doctor and make an appointment.

We did our best to adapt the interface so that the system can easily and clearly work on tablets and desktop devices.

Within this project, we employed our team’s created design sprint, engaging designers, managers, and analytics experts. They collaborated seamlessly to aid you in achieving goals and shaping a unique product.