Partial view of interactive "Twinlist" prototype that enables comparisons of two medication lists on a number of parameters. The code is openly available and the Guide explains the human factors principles that underlie the design.
One year of designing examples, coding prototypes, corralling authors, and producing the final product.
Involution Studios designer Jen Patel and Creative Director Juhan Sonin just completed a year-long project with the University of Missouri and the California HealthCare Foundation creating a design pattern reference book for Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
Inspired EHRs: Designing for Clinicians is a generously illustrated, interactive e-book for health IT developers, whether EHR / PHR / healthcare app software vendors, EHR client organization implementation teams, EHR consultants, or usability professionals. The book is intended to be clinically relevant, inspirational, and illustrative, but not prescriptive. (Last September, in Guiding EHR Design, Jen described the design philosophy and approach.) The content of the book and the code of its prototypes is made available under the Apache 2.0 open source license, which allows anyone to freely use the code and ideas presented in this book, subject to the conditions listed under Licenses on opensource.org.
Written in an accessible, science journalist style, the book was developed in a series of workshops with help from the Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) Clinician Experience Workgroup. The team, based at the University of Missouri-Columbia in partnership with Involution Studios Boston included colleagues from the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab and The University of Texas Health Sciences Center-Houston. Contributors to Inspired EHRs: Designing for Clinicians included Jeff Belden, MD; Richelle Koopman, MD, MS; Joi Moore, PhD; Catherine Plaisant, PhD; Todd R. Johnson, PhD; Nathan Lowrance; Juhan Sonin; and Jennifer Patel. This book was made possible thanks to the generous support of the SHARP-C Project of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT and the California HealthCare Foundation.
About Involution’s Health Design Practice
For almost 10 years, Involution has been building software for health companies of every shape and size, from household names like AstraZeneca and Walgreens, to research leaders like the Personal Genome Project and Partners HealthCare. We also work with the most exciting and progressive health startups. We’ve made digital healthcare our top focus.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact us at feedback@inspiredehrs.org