Designing for Logistics Flow Overview

Northern lvsborgs County Hospital(NL) E ergency Depart ent

!rollh"ttan# $othenburg# %we&en

%ara Elebro %efat Chow&hury

'n (nteraction Design Class pro)ect at Chal ers *niversity of !echnology# +,-+ $othenburg# %we&en

Home Screen !he ost i portant infor ation that the nurses always nee& to .now is the patient/s health con&ition0
%o# we &eci&e& to visuali1e patient priority infor ation on the ho e screen0 2elow is how the ho e screen wor.s3

1. Each bubble represents a patient0

+0 !he te4t on the bubble (2+# '5 etc0) tells where the patient is locate& (hospital section6war&)0 70 !he color of the bubble represents patient priority8 Orange being the critical# Yellow of e&iu threat an& Green eans the patient is safe0 Red is only use& in case of life threatening situation which is not very &esirable for any patient0 !he &ot insi&e a bubble in&icates awaiting actions(e0g0 test results waiting# ti e for e&ication etc0) 90 !he bubble si1e increases as the gap between current ti e an& the last chec. up ti e for a patient increases0 !he nurse strives to .eep the bubbles as s aller as possible0 :0 !he bubbles ;oat aroun& the screen0 !hey can be bubble reveals the account &etails for that patient0 ove& aroun&6tappe&6clic.e&0 !apping or clic.ing a

Patient Details
(n this section# all the re<uire& infor ation about a patient is recor&e& an& &isplaye&0 %o e notable features are3 -0 Nurses can chec. to=&o list an& a&& new entry by clic.ing the )ournal icon0 !he ti er can be use& to set re in&er if re<uire&0 (f set# the re in&er is &isplaye& as a &ot insi&e the bubbles in the ho e screen0 +0 !he patient &ata are shown as list of bloc.s0 Nurses can a&& new &ata bloc. or &elete an e4isting one0 Current graphs are use& as placehol&ers that are suppose& to be replace& by actual graphs0 !he placehol&er view provi&e a sense of how certain variable has change&(e0g0 2loo& pressure) in last few &ays6hours without the nee& of getting into the &etails0 Of course it is also possible to .now the &etails by clic.ing6tapping on the s all &isplay icon at each corner of the bloc.0 70 !he patient location is shown at the right=top0 !he blue &ot in&icates the patient is at the blue section of the hospital0

Patient Details (continued...) 40 Nurses can a&& new tas.s an& also chec. e4isting chores6tas.s by clic.ing the )ournal icon that is only
applicable to that particular patient0 !he )ournal icon turns green if there is a tas. that re<uires attention within short perio& of ti e0 2esi&es# the ti er can be use& to set any special re in&er0 >henever a re in&er is about to go off# it is shown as an awaiting &ot in the ho e screen bubble0 :0 ' new variable about a patient can be a&&e& by clic.ing6tapping on the e pty bloc.0 (n that case# a new o&al win&ow appears an& the nurse can select the &ata (e0g0 Heart rate) fro the list0

Patient details (continued...) -0 !he newly a&&e& bloc. is shown by highlighting the area0 !he highlighting color &isappears in few
secon&s0 +0 (f a variable is not nor al (e0g0 2o&y te p) the correspon&ing icon glows0 !he nurse can chec. the con&ition an& change the priority if re<uire&0 For e4a ple# the priority is set to orange now0 ?oving one step to the left gives yellow an& to the tight gives re&0 70 !he basic infor ation(age# allergy etc0) about a patient co es fro the initial registration section0

90 !he nurse can chec. on the other nurses an& &octors by clic.ing6tapping on the icons at the top0 :0 !he nurse can call up or chat with other nurses as well which is place& at the right=botto corner of the screen0 !he nurse sees pen&ing essages as noti@cation that bubbles up where the re& speech bubble is shown0

Cause and Effect

-0 (n this section# any staff can chec. the cause (treat ent6 actions ta.en by &octor6nurses) an& effect (the change in patient) ;ow for any given a ount of ti e0 Use case scenario: Aernilla 'ugustsson/s bloo& pressure an& heart rate see to be at alar ing con&ition0 %o# the &octor assigns a bloo& test an& 4=ray test 0 !he test report says8 4=ray report has a yellow level threat an& bloo& result has it at orange level0 !he &octor prescribes certain e&ication(green pill icon) which in turn prove& to be effective an& the bloo& situation turns nor al over ti e(green bloo& icon)0 !he icons are tappable6clic.able to reveal ore &etails8 test &etails an& e&ication &etails to be precise0 +0 !he staff can set a range of ti e perio& to chec. the progress6 ;ow of any patient0 !he cause an& effect ;ow is swipe=able to the left an& right0

Comparison (Correlation and Pattern recognition

-0 (n this section# the staff can co pare &ifferent patient &ata sets0 !he &ata visuali1ation helps the &octors an& nurses to &iscover patterns that can help the &iscover an& reali1e the source for any proble s0 +0 !he staff can choose fro a list an& select to bring the on the stage for co parison0 For e4a ple# the @gure shows the co parison between bloo& pressure an& respiratory rate of Aernilla 'ugustsson for last - wee.0 Depen&ing on the ti e length the &ata visuali1ation can e4pan& further to the left a& right of the screen0 (n that case# the user has to scroll to the right an& left0 !he 1oo feature can be enable& to a&)ust effective viewport0

!as" Prediction
-0 (n this section# the nurse choose fro several tas. routes that are presente& to her base& on the current tas. selection0 For e4a ple# this nurse is &ealing with B patients un&er her supervision0 For her ne4t tas. she chose Aernilla 'ugustsson0 !he tas. pre&iction tool shows her 7 &ifferent routes to choose fro so that she can acco plish rest of the tas. the safest way possible(route 7 in this case)0 +0 !he tas. co bination is &yna ic an& highly prone to change anyti e &epen&ing on the patients/ physical con&ition0 !he staff choose a tas.# co pletes it an& up&ate the routes before continuing with the ne4t tas.0 (t is also possible to play aroun& with &ifferent selection to @n& the safest path0 !his tas. co pletion with constant &iscovery is inspire& fro the popular ga e chess an& the pre&iction echanis is .nown as /pruning/0 70 !he bloc.s in the @gure represents the patients0 !he colors stan& for priority0 Every bloc. is ovable an& the staff can play aroun& with &ifferent settings to &iscover new co bination0 !he bloc.s with a s aller bloc. insi&e eans those patients/ con&ition ight &egra&e if it ta.es too long to chec. on the 0 90 (n reality# it is not possible to .now when a patient/s con&ition woul& change but if the syste learns patient pro@le# &isease type an& other &eter inants then it is possible to co e up with ore reliable tas. pre&ictions( achine learning) 0

#$%&El'is
-0 !he hospital staff use this section to get access to answers to the <uestions regar&ing various range of topics 0 !ypically# these are gui&elines that they can follow when the &octor is not aroun& an& also because they &o not nee& help of &octors as the proble is inor an& within their reach to @40 !his replaces the nee& of accessing Elvis separately8the tool they were alrea&y using for si ilar purpose0

-0 F'C6Elvis is also accessible fro

ho e screen0