Pooja, I was a designer in the Health Care industry for three and a half years, with two different medical companies. One of which provided an EMR (Electronic Medical Record) applciation, and a PHR (Personal Health Record). The other provided applications to Physicians that facilitated the viewing and ordering of Lab Results. Each had users numbering in the thousands with both patients and medical professionals. When it came to the UI, I would use best practices to create the applications where needed, and innovated where I could. And there are lots of places where you can be innovative. The same is true of the interactions. What was the most cumbersome was getting user acceptance or buy off on functionality, because most had very drastic differences in their opinions of what they wanted to do what and how. Because of that, we made the application very flexible or customizable so that each user could have the application do what they wanted. This was not the case for bigger pieces of the application, such as reporting, etc. In those cases, most users had similar needs that we were able to design around. In regards to Accessibility, we did not have any strict requirements from any customers that I was ever aware of. This was again a place where we would use best practices in design with css/xhtml, etc to allow for the best possible experience, font sizing, screen resolution, etc.
As for the Microsoft Health Common User Interface, when I first saw that, I chuckled. There is nothing there that is new. Sure, maybe you could use it as a starting point, but I can almost guarantee that groups of Physicians or Medical professionals will not like the way that they have done things. So to answer your questions ... Is there any Samples or Guidelines available for health care domain? I have never seen any good guidelines or samples. The various companies that are solving problems in the Health Care industry are all doing it differently. The are not unified. There are some websites for the various EMR vendors that will show demos of their products. You may get some ideas there, if nothing more that a starting point to come up with a better solution. What are the major attributes or details which have to be kept in attention while designing? My suggestion would be to use best practices in web application design and go from there. Talk to customers and design around their needs. Any example available which has the least number of mouse clicks? You can think about mouse clicks, but in some cases it does not matter. For instance, if a Physician wants to run an ad hoc report off of some medical data, the steps that are required in choosing the data, how it is sorted and displayed can take many clicks. Sure you want the least amount possible, and you want the task to be easy to accomplish, but I would not set yourself a limit on something like mouse clicks, it will vary. Hope that helps. Grady Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gradykelly.com On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:57:24, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Microsoft has developed what they call a Clinical UI guidelines > document. > > Here is an article about it: > > http://www.examiner.com/p-37868~Microsoft_Helps_Developers_of_Clinical_User_Interfaces_Improve_Efficiency__Patient_Safety_With_Free_Toolkit.html > > Enjoy! > > Otherwise I believe that healthcare is one of the worst examples of > enterprise software design. It is sooooo sorely lacking, especially > in the hospital administration and other clinical direct patient care > applications out there. I imagine that any designer with any good > resources and political clout and money can do better than anything > previously done. > > > -- dave > On 10/30/07, pooja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi All, Does any member have designed the application for hospital or related health care fields? Is there any Samples or Guidelines available for health care domain? What are the major attributes or details which have to be kept in attention while designing? Any example available which has the least number of mouse clicks? Please suggest as I am currently working on hospital management application, need some guidance. Regards, Pooja Rastogi ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
