Requirements and Features

This stuff needs to be scoped by December 8.

  • minimum 21 inch wide screen
    • always show client info
    • customizable interface. Windows should be collapsible & editable components
  • 6 doctors per clinic

Priority

Requirements

Scheduler

User Workflow

  • new patient walks into clinic (“walk in”).
  • scheduled patient walks in
  • phone call to make/book appointment

Must have

  • Appointment booking
  • hours of staff
  • tied to patient files
  • day, week, month views
  • per doctor, all doctors/staff schedule views

Nice to have / future

  • data mining. analysis of appointment frequency, length etc.

Patient Chart/file

User Workflow

Must have

  • Demographics / personal info
    • Searchable
  • Visit History
    • SOAP format (subjective, objective(more fields), assessment, plan)
  • 5 common templates
    • ex) full physical, child etc
  • Billing codes after soap
  • Allergies
  • problem list / family history (ongoing problems)
  • medical list
  • social history (smoke, married etc)
  • Referrals (data)
  • modification history / audit trail

Nice to have / future

  • In the SOAP section
    • subsections(ability to drill down) to add/look up more info
      • Objective
      • Assessment → link to ICD9 (disease number code)
      • Plan → hook into Prescription database
  • data mining for objective fields. Analysis.

Billing

User Workflow

Must have

  • must talk to AB health

Nice to have / future

Communication System (tasks / messages)

User Workflow

Must have

  • between staff
  • link to files / charts
  • reminders, notifications, overdue tasks (email notif)

Nice to have / future

  • features for communicating to patients through the internet
    • login
    • maybe see doctors schedule
    • book appointment
    • see lab reports, medications etc…
    • email list
      • on demographic.
    • text the patient etc
    • automated calling

Interoperability

User Workflow

Must have

  • alberta health billing
  • Deal breaker - AB Health labs/ radiology - Risk: this may require some leg work, bureaucracy
  • drug database (lots of pre-existing software solutions)

Nice to have / future

  • AB Netcare (track labs/discharge)

Misc

User Workflow

  • Hardware requirements
  • security, safety, correctness

Nice to have / future

  • reporting
  • fax to pharmacy

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