GR1
- Group members** Mohammad M. Ghassemi
- Robin Deits
- Kamran Khan
- Franck Dernoncourt
- Problem statement** According to Time, doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1578074,00.html). In an emergency care context, physicians and other members of the clinical staff (nurses, administrative assistant) have to keep track of patients coming in and out of the intensive care units as well as some basic medical information. The problem is that this information is kept on a whiteboard, where the quantity of information is limited, and mistakes can frequently result from poor handwriting, misreading, accidental erasure, and other errors.
- Current solutions to this problem are profoundly low-tech.
- User Goals
- Prioritize care to those most needy.
- Provide optimal care at minimal cost, and volume.
- Obstacles lie in the way:** Poor IT skills among hospital employees
- Observations & Interviews. Give a narrative of the three people that you observed and interviewed. Each narrative should include a particularly interesting moment -- a breakdown or workaround that exhibits a feature of the problem you're aiming to solve.
- Interview 1:
- Interview 2:
- Interview 3:
- User Classes. ** Doctors*** Busy, want easy access to pertinent patient information such as location, medical status, previous interventions and a visual.
- Nurses*** High workload, responsible for updating notes and want a system that easily allows them to modify information on patients.
- Administrative Assistants*** Need accurate detail, responsible for billing. Need to know which nurse and doctor are responsible for which patients.
- Needs & Goals. Describe the goals that you have identified, with reference to the observations you made.**
Illustrations: