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What if Facebook and Amazon Built an EMR?

02/08/2011 By Dale Sanders 3 Comments

Dale Sanders, CIO, Cayman Island Health Authority

Below are my screen mock-ups, based on Facebook’s and Amazon’s user interfaces.  I borrow ideas from them because the metaphors fit healthcare quite nicely, but also because the user interfaces on today’s EMRs are abominable, and adoption rates are terrible (without financial coercion) as a result.  People flock to Facebook and Amazon by the millions, without financial incentives.  Why?  Because:

Total Value of Software Applications = Functional Value x Usability

If either Functional Value or Usability drop to zero, the overall value of the application drops to zero as well.  EMRs might be functional, but they are not user friendly, so their Total Value to healthcare is very low.

In Facebook, we have a perfect framework for longitudinal documentation, collaboration, messaging, and scheduling between a patient and members of their entire care team, including family and friends.

We also have a framework for easily integrating data from other sources to enhance the value to the patient’s healthcare – there’s no equivalent of HL7 interchange going on in Facebook.  It references data located in other sources and systems. Can you imagine Facebook surviving if it required itself to house all the data that it presents?  Facebook takes great advantage of referencing and pointing to data in the source systems.

In Amazon, we have a perfect and familiar metaphor for ordering tests and procedures; tracking them; assessing their costs; rating them and seeing how other clinicians rated those orderables and referrals; and adjusting orders based on the behaviors and ratings of other clinicians, etc.

Here are the screen shots (click on the images below to see a larger version).  Let’s start building these, eh?  Think Mark Zuckerman or Jeff Bezos would help? :-)

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Filed Under: Acute EMR Tagged With: Blogs, Dale Sanders

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  1. kboone says

    02/09/2011 at 4:55 AM

    I gotta laugh. At one company I worked at years ago we quipped about an interface that said: Patients with conditions like this recieved these treatments…

    Now I’m thinking: “I like this treatment”

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  2. BobSchu says

    02/18/2011 at 12:15 PM

    Way to go Dale. Keep pushin’ the thinking!

    (Do cosmetic surgery options go on the wish list ;)?)

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  3. Rick Roscoe says

    08/05/2014 at 12:24 PM

    It’s said that one hallmark of creativity is taking non-related things and finding relationships. Did the creators of the EMR simply try to put the paper chart on the computer?

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