Re: Fwd: Re: list of functions + GUI design
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:47, Elpidio Latorilla wrote:
> The difficult part is to know which data are most important. Since I am
> not a GP I am inclined to look at GnuMed and other similar apps (unless I
> get a chance to observe a GP at work for a substantial length of time).
>
> One solution is to make it user-configurable. Data are grouped and the user
> selects which groups are to be shown as his personal default. Ideally, the
> user can decide where on the page and how the groups are displayed.
> Template system?
It *is* user configurable. The user interface is just a frame work for plug in
GUI modules, which can be configured even at run time any way you want and
need. No single user interface would fit all needs of medical practitioners
of various disciplines in various environments (private practice, community
health, hospital, research ...). But a common database can be accessed
through a multitude of user interfaces tailored to need - and this is what
gnumed attempts.
I want to stretch the fact that the majority of active gnumed developers are
actually practising doctors, with many -like me- working in a busy paperless
medical practice since many years and knowing exactly what they don't like
with their current software and what they would need & expect from any future
ideal software.
If you see a patient every 6-10 minutes you can't afford to dick around with
software more than a minute (60 seconds!) to do all your documentation etc.
Hospital doctors tend to have a lot more time than this and may be able to
put up with a less responsive but also less "cluttered" web interface
Horst
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