Hi all, >From where I sit the issue being discussed here is an old one essentially about human nature - we all respond most easily to that which we know and understand.
In designing a website we know that if you want input about navigation, then don't have any meaningful content or GUI hints available or almost certainly all the feedback will be about the size or color of the button and the font and position of the heading. Similarly my concern in designing templates and getting the content reviewed appropriately is that as soon as you add interface/GUI features to make it more 'intuitive' to the clinicians their focus goes immediately to that which is more familiar. That is, the feedback tends to be related to their user interface experience (naturally gained from their day-to-day use of their current clinical system) rather than actually critiquing which archetypes have been used, which data fields are presented, and all their associated attributes, cardinality, constraints and related metadata etc etc. So my preferred response (and from positive experience) is to spend a relatively small amount of time to educate the clinicians on how to feedback appropriately and meaningfully on the pure archetypes and templates - we have done this successfully, but I suggest it is probably optimal if a clinician involved in the design (perhaps a health informatician with a leg in 'both camps') to walk them thru the models and to make it a sensible conversation. It is my opinion that the GUI design and review should be completely separate to the content design and review - mixing the two gets very confusing. Regards Heather -----Original Message----- From: openehr-technical-boun...@openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Tim Cook Sent: Friday, 27 June 2008 8:55 PM To: For openEHR technical discussions Subject: Re: GUI-hints in openEHR templates? (Was: PatientOS archetype to form demo (of sorts)) On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:30 +0200, Thilo Schuler wrote: > I can understand Josinas comments about clinicians not caring about > the difference between semantics and GUI stuff, so a tool like the > Template Designer should hide this important separation, where > appropriate. Not withstanding your 'where appropriate' caveat. The clinicians creating templates (as with archetypes) need to have training and a special understanding of what is at stake. If the clinicians designing archetypes/templates do not care about the difference between semantics and GUI stuff then they are they wrong clinicians to be designing archetypes and templates. <sarcasm> They should probably be designing another "By Physicians for Physicians EMR". Do we really need another one of those? We also do not need another EHR built by clueless IT people. </sarcasm> That's not meant to disparage the clinicians on the various openEHR mailing lists. This is a multidisciplinary issue and it takes all of us to do this the right way. Again, the 'right' people must be the ones designing the knowledge modules. My 2 pence. --Tim
