Findings from the field about EMR and usability. IS it helping Doctors or making their life worse.

1. Electronic Medical
Records
&
Usability
-Pearl Somani
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2. 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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Twitter: @PearlSomani
November 19, 2014 UX Boston

3. Health Care Cost of GDP
2.47 Trillion USD
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4. Electronic Medical Record
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5. Usability Problems
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6. 01. Lack of Readability
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7. 02. Use of Technical Jargons
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8. 03. Spend Less time with
Patients
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9. 04. Patient Identification Error
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10. 05. Inconsistent Format
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11. 06. Wrong Medication Event
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12. 07. Delay in Treatment
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13. Make Our Medical Reports
Personalized
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14. 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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15. Other factors to consider
• Colors
• Group Information
• Organize Data
• Graphical Representation of Data.
• Design for Color Blind (ADA)
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16. Thank You.
&
Questions ?
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Twitter: @PearlSomani
November 19, 2014 UX Boston