Re: Fwd: Re: list of functions + GUI design
I agree.
elpidio
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 12:52, Horst Herb wrote:
> 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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