As a doctor working in an Emergency Department and seeing patients (sic: people) with largely preventable conditions/diseases alot of the time, I really like the idea of personalised medicine and involving patients and empowering them to take control of their…
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Healthcare start-ups
The path to the well planned and designed health services of the future goes through many professions from the medical to architecture to interior design to UI and UX expertise to app development, industrial design and landscaping. We may live…
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Inside Britain’s busiest A&E – video
Inside Britain’s busiest A&E – video How the A&E department at Queen’s hospital in Romford, east London, relies on locums, part-time doctors and on recruiting staff from abroad Real users, real context of use, really ignoring the user interface and…
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Selectores de género
littlebigdetails: Instructables – Offers a variety of gender options when signing up for an account /via Vonn Interesante detalle. En el ámbito clínico este tipo de datos es punto de controversia. Por un lado hay usuarios para los que este…
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Hospital Costs
Hospital Costs The federal government recently released data about what hospitals charge for procedures, and how much Medicare reimburses them. We have visualized some of this data, along with publicly available data about mortality rates under these same procedures. How does your hospital stack…
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Performance vs Clinical Risk
The complexity of creating usable solutions in healthcare The productivity that a user can get with a tool depends, among other things, on the usability of the interface used to work. In the context of healthcare applications, the interface design…
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[es] Productividad vs Riesgo Clínico
La dificultad de crear soluciones usables en sanidad La productividad que un usuario puede conseguir con una herramienta depende, entre muchas otras cosas, de la usabilidad de la interfaz con la que trabaje. En el contexto de las aplicaciones sanitarias,…
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Designing Android Applications
Here is the safe-bet list of resources I found while designing Android applications. The Oficial Styleguide Android UI Patterns HOLO Everywhere Android App Patterns Android Icons
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Facebook-like EMR (Part II)
In my previous post, I published a simple mock-up to introduce the idea of an Electronic Medical Record looking like Facebook social network. We initially saw how taking advantage of this website could help to contribute for a better tool…
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Facebook-like EMR (Part I)
Facebook-like EMR (Part II) In 2008, Bob Watcher wrote an article called “Why the medical record needs to become more like Facebook” where lay down the idea of having the social network as the mirror for a new Electronic Medical Record (EMR)…