On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:14:42 John S. Gage wrote:
>The question is do you want physicians to be empowered at the level of
>interface design or storage/logical data structure design?
Hi John,
Good question! If we apply the same question to traditional paper forms, the answer
is clearly both.
For the OIO system, physicians are similarly empowered at both the interface and
data structure levels.
A simplification that seems to work well is to assume that form/interface follows
function. Therefore, when a "form" is created within the OIO system, both the
requisite interface and data structures are automatically built - quite analogous to
drawing lines and boxes on paper to create a form.
The interface is spartan but functional. The data structure accurately reflects the
needs of the specific data management application.
The group of 25 psychiatrists who took our 4-hour training course 5 days ago during
the American Psychiatric Association 2001 Annual Meeting were able to grasp the
concepts and designed some pretty fancy web-forms. They were pretty impressed with
their new abilities to create/control a web-based data management system :-).
[The slides from the course are online at www.TxOutcome.Org]
They were primarily suspicious of my motives and thought I will take the software
proprietary in the near future.
Best regards,
Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
TxOutcome.Org (hosting OIO Library #1)
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
University of California, Los Angeles
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