2012-08-20 Feedback from Visiting Doctor

Participants: Sathyan Velumani , Surajit Nundy , John V Stoecker (Unlicensed), Nathan Leiby (Unlicensed), (visiting doctor's name?)

Epidemiology standpoint

  • Needs powerful querying tools, to pull up reports
    • e.g. bmi by malaria, etc

clinical / EMR standpoint

  • notes section is good, necessary
    • but lots of checkboxes, tick boxes are needed
    • possible to capture history as series of checkboxes?
  • data entry person attached to physician? cheap labor makes it OK / possible?
  • administrator vs physician perspective
    • doctor likes autogenerating treatments, less tedious writing etc
    • doctor likes easy access to longitudinal info for patient
      • what things are longitudinally important ... allow graphs of those
      • 25 top variables to physicians? autograph them
      • x y ... time vs measurement unit
      • what are very specific lab measurements, clinical diagnoses (repeat diahreeal)
  • privacy and communication between EMRS
    • learn from NHIS
  • only registered users can access and port data
    • prove that they're actually a physician at another institution
      • MCI database of doctors in
      • UID
    • anyone can send a query ... X requests your healthdata, Sends SMS to patient, type this code
  • patient component


business model

  • Consider Redhat Business model - opensource, but getting $$ by helping with installation and support
  • NOT customization ... wont fit everyone
  • installation, setup/config, IT support, etc