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Healthcare Software Solutions – Lightweight Authoring for Experts
Experts abound in healthcare. By definition, physicians themselves are all expertsin their chosen field. And from these experts, super-experts and super-specialistsemerge who become the authorities on very narrow yet important subjects. Arecent development in software makes it easy for any subject matter expert totranslate their knowledge into a working application that guides users through processes like data collection and decision-making.Jon Udell produced anexcellent screencastwhere he interviews Dr. DonaldThomas (Mentat Systems), an expert in running hospital emergency departments,on his use of the mTuitive Authoring Environment to create anxPert Application for ER Triage. This is a lengthy, thoughtful discussion on the use of lightweighttools to encode expert medical knowledge, and we all enjoyed it and appreciate Mr.Udell’s and Dr. Thomas’s take.Jon and Don talk about how a tool needs to accommodate the way the user-author-developer thinks… In the case of our tool, folks who generally like outlining toolsease right into the tree metaphor. They talk about how a programming backgroundis very helpful when getting started, but in our experience at mTuitive non-technical people have been quite successful creating applications as well. Thesimple, declarative method of creating dynamic logic and rules makes sense to alot of people, maybe more so to non-techies who aren’t thinking constantly aboutwhat’s happening under the hood. At the end of the day, though, there must bemany different cognitive styles of presentation and interaction that would helpdifferent experts in different fields encode their hard-won knowledge as usefulapplications. As we move ahead in healthcare, we’ll be constantly layering andadjusting our tools to make the transition from the expert’s brain to the computer assmooth and pleasurable as possible.Again, thescreencastis worth the time.
To view Jon Udell’s screencast visithttp://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/07/31.html#a1495 For more information on healthcare information systems or on creating technology solutions for your own industry or business, visit mTuitive at www.mTuitive.com.
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