Introduction

This document contains UX guidelines that all medical software that use the Vitalink medication scheme should comply with.

All software packages should also comply with the UX guidelines for every software package in Vitalink found here.

Terminology & Abbreviations

A list of the terminology used in this document can be found here.

Automatic questioning of Vitalink

Mandatory

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Recommendations

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Delivery of medication

Mandatory

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Recommendations

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One combined overview of all active medication

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Mandatory

It is important that the pharmacist has one overview of the active medication of the patient. Since both information about the active medication can be found in the local EMR and on Vitalink, the general practitioner wishes to see one combined overview. This overview must be shown on the first working screen of the application.

The pharmacist does not want to compare the information from the local EMR and the Vitalink medication scheme manually to determine what has changed. Comparing two different schemes is too time-consuming, too complex and can lead to mistakes. Methods where they can 'update' per line, 'upload' are not well understood. Rows in a table using different status icons can not be interpreted unambiguously.

The principle of a combined overview should be kept simple: provide only an indication 'what is on Vitalink'. 'What is in the local file'. Afterwards, the pharmacist can take further decisions around this.

It is important that this combined overview is displayed automatically, clearly indicating what has changed with respect to the local EMR, any alerts regarding medication lines that may be a problem, etc.
The purpose of this combined overview is that the pharmacist can see at a glance what has changed since the last time he uploaded the patient's medication scheme.

After obtaining the information from Vitalink, the pharmacist sees who has validated the last Vitalink medication scheme and when.

Concretely, the combined overview means the following:

Recommendations

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Create a Vitalink medication scheme with one click

Mandatory

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Recommendations

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Interactive/Dynamic medication scheme

Mandatory

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Recommendations

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Validate the Vitalink medication scheme

Mandatory

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Recommendations

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Visualization of the print version of the Vitalink medication scheme

Mandatory

It should be taken into account that the print version of the medication scheme for the patient may evolve in the future.

Depending on the needs of the patient, different types of displays may be necessary.

Each view will be built on the same dataset. This view should be able to be viewed on the screen by the pharmacist & possibly the patient during the consultation, or be printed to give to the patient.

• A display type can be selected on the combined overview of the medication scheme.
• It must be easy to alternate between the different types of view so that the pharmacist can decide in consultation with the patient which visualization of the medication scheme is best suited for the patient.

An exact implementation of this representation(s) will have to be offered by the software supplier.

Recommendations

• Ensure that the pharmacist can easily switch between the different display types.

• Keep the preference for a specific type of display for each patient, so that the pharmacist can know which type he / she should select during a subsequent consultation.

How to handle mistakes

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Miscellaneous

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