Monday, May 25, 2009

Prototype Mock-up Version 1

I am ultimately trying to redesign the way Moca allows doctors to view patient data (images, audio, video) with OpenMRS - the electronic medical record system. In order to do this, I am going to create a generic viewer for media files, for general use throughout OpenMRS. The vision is for any user of OpenMRS to click on a media file associated with a patient and then have it launch in the Flash viewer that I create, where the clinician would be able to review and annotate the file, and have it stored in the patient record for later reference.

Then I will proceed to integrate the viewer into the Moca platform. This means that when a clinician using Moca logs onto OpenMRS, he will see a queue of pending patient data files that require diagnosis (already built into Moca). If he clicks to view a particular patient's visit, the media viewer will launch. On the left of the screen will be the "Moca panel" which holds patient responses to pertinent questions (How bad is the pain? When did you get surgery?) and input fields for making a treatment and diagnosis recommendation. On the right hand side of the screen will be the OpenMRS Flash viewer that I mentioned above. The clinician will be able to browse all images, video, and audio files of that patient from that same visit, manipulate the image (zoom, increase contrast, brighten, sharpen), annotate them with his interpretations, enter in his diagnosis/treatment recommendation for the patient, and then hit a button to immediately send an SMS with his response back to the healthcare worker who originally interacted with the patient.

To start off, I came up with a mock-up of what the viewer would look like in OpenMRS to handle (1) images, (2) audio, and (3) videos.



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