2012-03-05 Weekly Meeting

Owned by Nathan Leiby (Unlicensed)
Mar 05, 2012
4 min read

Attendees

Shuro, Daniel, Nathan, Susan, Sathyan

Notes


Agenda:

JSS specific

  • JSS had a highly reputed Pulmonologist visiting from the UK this past week, Dr Ranu Bhatia. Hopefully we’ll get him to write something up about his experiences here in the coming days.
  • Sunil Sunthalia, the young doctor and public health expert who will be the on-site lead for the EMR at JSS for two years: though we haven’t heard much from him, he confirmed he is definitely coming first week in April.
  • A visit from Galaxy Soap representative in Bombay to deliver posters and fliers in rural areas to promote hand washing. Will post photos of this on DropBox.


Project wide

  • UI/UX: agreement about process: Susan can fill in details, but suffice to say that for now our UIUX team should be focused on non-pixel perfect wireframes.
  • We now have nearly 300 followers on Twitter! Please follow us!!  @Raxa_jss_emr  
  • Looking into the use of Sencha Designer 2, if we can get a few free licenses. If anyone who knows anyone who works at Sencha, give a holler!
  • Office space! We’ve very nearly closed on a small office space in New Delhi, which will provide shelter for anyone who wants to come help work on the project – summer interns in particular!
  • Welcome new members: John Anzelc (California), Bill Thies (Bangalore), Brandon Tendeck (Saskatoon, Canada), Marcos Aguayo (Barcelone, Spain). 


Module specific

  • OPD module: we’ve been trying to arrange a conference call for designers working on the OPD module, but it’s been challenging to get everyone to agree to a common time. At any case in recent weeks Darrian (OPD’s UI/UX lead) has had an opportunity to speak with Sagun and Jesse. Darrian is now traveling for work for the next week, but still available by email.  Also we’re one step closer to creating an OPD advisor’s group to build a clinical decision support mechanism to the system.  
  • Lab: Sathyan and Nancy’s progress has been great. People should check out the latest (v1.6) Lab taskflows document in DropBox. On the backend of things, Roger has made great strides, tasking Jianhua’s and Vijita with tasks for building out the backend. Hopefully Adarsh and Abhinav, who are each on spring break this week, can make significant contributions as well.  
  • Pharmacy:  A fantastic document from Promila and Sures (who hail from the world-class National Institute of Design in Ahmenabad, Gujarat (India)) has been placed in DropBox, in the  pharmacy sub-folder of  ‘latest items’, which is located in the UI/UX design folder. This document does a brilliant job of outlining which functionalities of iDART will be required on the front-end of the new system, and which we can do without.  Really great job there.  Also, students working with Barry Levine, who are heading up the OpenMRS-iDART project are getting organized now. One group is working on the back end (mysql, which OpenMRS uses & Postgresql, which is what iDART uses), while another will work on the front end. The good people behind iDART, based in CapeTown, South Africa have been hugely helpful in this effort.  We hope some masters students from San Francisco State will take this forward after Barry’s class ends in early May.
  • Registration:  We had the final Scrum call and end of the code Sprint for the Registration module this last week.  See the ‘lessons learned’ link on our wiki, and please write to us or comment on it if you’d like to see it updated.  For those who haven’t finished their tickets yet, that those belonging to Nathan, Rajan and Suhas would be done this weekend, Lawrence this coming week, Saptarshi by March 10th and Bhushan by March 17th.  Of course, if the tickets are done sooner, that would be even better!
  • Screener / Triage module:  New high-res designs from Gio are now available in DropBox; Riddhima has come up with an amazing suggestion for design of the STM, based partly on this: http://labs.infragistics.com/silverlightdv/Showcases/HospitalFloorPlan/
  • CHW: totally awesome app available from http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/safe-pregnancy-and-birth-mobile-app/We’re trying to see if it can’t be translated into Hindi.

 

 Design discussion

  • Sencha Designer tool. Suggested that best path is to have a coding savvy designer to look at this tool and understand the limitations/strengths of Sencha as we make our designs. (Jesse?)
  • Open question: What do developers need from UI/UX in order to build the system? what is the bridge between developers and designers?
    • TODO: Specify the handoff process from UI/UX to developers. Checklist. (Nathan, to work with Susan)
    • TODO: Look at Sencha designer to understand our toolset (Jesse, to work with Kathleen)
    • In 1-2 weeks, have this process better specified in a 1-pager.
  • Ext Theme Designer - listing of all Sencha tools, and you can adjust the theme via this site
  • Kathleen to specify our "branding".
  • Need rules for our screens
    • hypothetical: Patient's name always in upper left in X size, Y font, etc
  • Let UI designers focus on wireframes and getting correct elements on each screen
    • Transitions between pages, error checking
    • States, elements in drop-downs


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