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UX GUIDELINES: mandatory & recommended criteria
Access to medication information
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- Prescribed medication is automatically added to the medication scheme (combined overview), unless explicitly chosen not to.
- This means that the medication is entered via structured entry fields.
- Visualize newly added medication in a different way in the medication scheme. In this way the CG has a clear overview of what will be added.
- During the prescription of a medication, the CG must be able to indicate whether the medication may or may not be shown on Vitalink.
- By default, all medication is shown on Vitalink if the CG has indicated to work with Vitalink.
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During a hospital stay
Mandatory
- Make sure that it is easy & quick to substitute home medication with hospital medication.
- The home medication should be remembered since it is important for the re-substitution to home medication afterwards.
- New prescriptions made during a hospital stay are not uploaded to Vitalink.
- Only if they stay applicable for the home medication, they will be validated and uploaded to Vitalink when discharging the patient (of when having a weekend at home during a hospitalization).
Validate
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& upload to Vitalink
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Mandatory
- After prescribing and completing the consultation it is important that the combined medication scheme is shown before validating and uploading.
- This means that the CG must actively press the 'Validate
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- & update Vitalink' button before the complete medication scheme is uploaded to Vitalink.
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- This can be done at the end of the consultation, but also after prescribing medication.
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- active medication isn't validated & updated to Vitalink when the CG is closing the patient file, the EHR should show a notification (screen overlay), indicating that the active medication isn't yet validated & uploaded to Vitalink.
- The CG can check the medication scheme and validate & update Vitalink (1 click).
- When printing the patient friendly medication scheme for the patient, it must also be possible to Validate & Update Vitalink as from there.
- If Vitalink is still syncing, and when the CG wants to continue, he/she should be able to 'Validate' the active medication.
- This is an internal validation (within the EHR).
- This means also that the CG has seen only the local EHR active medication.
- No upload to Vitalink will be done.
- It must be possible at all times to be able to open the EHR, and consequently the Vitalink medication scheme of several patients at the same time (eg telephone contact with another patient during a consultation)
The CG receives feedback on the upload of the Vitalink medication scheme when the patient's EMR is closed.
In the context of ambulant visits or future hospital admissions it is necessary that the CG can download and open one or different Vitalink medication schemes in advance (= combined overview) in the EMR.
It must be possible at all times to be able to open the EMR, and consequently the Vitalink medication scheme of different patients at the same time (eg telephone contact with another patient during a consultation).
If the CG does not want the medication scheme to be uploaded to Vitalink now (will have to do it later) , he should have the option to validate later (put it on a 'to do' list) and to not validate it yet. RELEVANT?
If the CG decides, at a later date, to validate this medication scheme, Vitalink must check whether the Vitalink medication scheme in the EMR is the latest version.
- This means that when opening an item from the 'to do' list, the relevant Vitalink medication scheme must be re-loaded.
- If applicable, a message should be shown that a more recent Vitalink medication scheme will be shown.
- The medication schemes that are 'to be validated later' must also be removed from the 'to do' list if they stay to long.
A medication scheme can not 'to be validated' for more than X number of days. This number of days must be parametrisable. Afterwards, the CG is obliged by a notification to validate the medication scheme (and is uploaded to Vitalink) or take another action (not validate).
Recommendations
- The CG must be able to open the medication scheme (combined overview) at any time before closing the patient's EMR.
- It is important that the 'to do' list for later validation of medication schemes and uploading to Vitalink can be managed efficiently.
Provide the CG with a reminder functionality in which he/she can set up to be reminded within x time to validate the medication scheme on the 'to do' list and send it to Vitalink.
Visualisation of the print version of the Vitalink medication scheme
Mandatory
- It should be taken into account that an official print version of the medication scheme for the patient is offered by Vitalink, it is thus not mandatory to develop an own patient print for your
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- EHR.
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- This print should
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- be visualized on the screen
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- . In this way, the CG &
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- patient can go through it together.
- When printing the patient friendly medication scheme, it must also be possible to 'Validate & update Vitalink'.
Click here for more in-depth information regarding the Vitalink medication scheme print.
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