Project: Create a User Interface for a New Application

Synopsis: A physicians group has decided to update their technology to something more modern and efficient. The segment of the task that requires your attention is in regard to the Patient Care System. This system will need to collect information and store it into a database, as well as record wellness evaluation data that is collected on each patient.

Description: A local physicians group, called LPG, is restructuring its internal technology processes. LPG consists of approximately 25 physicians, lab and x-ray technicians, nurses and assistants, as well as front office staff. In the community in which LPG operates, they serve approximately 3,000 patients, delivering services such as emergency medical treatment, wellness checkups, disease management, as well as many other medical offerings.

he company has chosen to create a new database system for patient record storage, as well as a new user interface for keeping track of patients and their medical histories.

You work as an application software designer for an international corporation that has received the contract to create the system, IBN. You are the primary designer and business interface between IBN and LPG. You will design the User Interfaces that will be implemented.

IBNs specialists have already determined which software language and database that the application will be created with. In addition, they have determined the first two modules that will be implemented: Basic Patient Data and Profile, and Wellness Checkup Profile.

Basic Patient Data and Profile: This comprises the basic information collected regarding a patient. It will encompass common information such as name, address, phone number, email address, primary care physician, health insurance provider/group number/member number, and so on. It will also contain profile information that will create a quick view of data collected from the wellness checkup, such as average bpm, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, as well as most recent information such as weight, height, blood pressure, current medications, and so on.

Wellness Checkup Profile: Every six months and/or when visiting due to illness, patients receive a screening that collects basic information: Date and time of checkup, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, heart rate, weight, height, current medicines, and so forth. This is a new record for each visit that will be used to aggregate historical patient data. Each record is editable, but should not have its information overwritten when the patient next visits, but instead receive a new record for each visitation date.

As the designer of the user interface, you will need to consider the natural flow of information, screen structures that allow for efficiency, ease of use, and logical grouping of controls and related data.

These two modules will have a minimum of seven screens. Effective designs may have more, if determined to be beneficial to end users. The three minimum screens are as follows:

1. Control Panel

2. Patient Search Screen

3. Add/Update Basic Patient Data and Profile

4. Add/Update Wellness Checkup Profile

5. List Wellness Checkup Profile

6. Patient Wellness Summary View

7. Basic Patient Profile Summary View

Deliverables:

1. Brainstorming and sketching: you will need to sketch out your designs by hand. Add notes as necessarily to illustrate the thought process to the LPG Technology Committee.

2. a Create a User Flow Diagram to illustrate how a user will interact with your system.

3. Once you have chosen a style for the UI, create a preview of each using wireframe for each of the seven screens.

4. Finally, create a mockup of the seven screens. These can be static or a clickable prototype. The mockups can be in either PowerPoint or Word, or even submitted in HTML, as you so choose.