Tag: Design
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Digital health needs to embrace clinical complexity
In online discussions around digital clinical systems there are some evergreen positions that have recently resurfaced… Why can’t my EPR be just like my Apple/Google/Other product. These “just work” and don’t need to be taught to users… Any clinical system that needs users to be trained is too complex and shouldn’t be used… Whilst I…
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Digital by design, not by default
Recently a colleague described a possible future for our hospital group as ‘Digital By Default’. This tagline isn’t new, having been popularised by the UK Government Digital Service. However, it’s worth reminding ourselves and others that this was not intended to position digital as a pre-selected option, but was much more ambitious: “By digital by default,…
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Designing Digital Health Documents
I’ve had a few discussions recently about the principles we (try) to apply when building new documents in our EPR (acute provider with several specialist services). Embarrassingly these have been held between various ears rather than written down. This is a non-exhaustive, no particular order first pass at trying to put this right! 1. The document…