Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) systems available in the market are industrial and administration centric. In contrast, the clinician-patient interaction is organic, idiosyncratic and personalized. Thus, when clinicians try to record this personalized interaction with an EHR, they encounter an inflexible, unresponsive categorical structure that accommodate the flow of the clinical encounter. Thus this information-rich interaction is reduced to a generalized, bland description common all over the system. This ultimately limits and frustrates the potential creativity, perception and individuality of the practitioner and the patient.
Additionally, input of information by the clinician in the presence of the patient reduces the face to face interaction between the patient and practitioner, further decreasing their interaction. [1]
This thesis will focus on developing a system where the patient requirements would guide the information flow of the system, but still documenting all the necessary information that the doctor would like to record.
[1] EHR systems pose serious concerns, report says
By Joseph Conn | June 24, 2013
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