Geek Salad meets Tuesday Feb 17 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th and Cherry

Gang,

I’m working on a project where doctors dealing with complicated infections are looking for data over days, weeks, or months.

Often, these are people in the hospital with numerous cultures of body fluids, and many procedures to look for the causes of infection.

It is tedious to go back and find all these pieces of data.

So, we are working on a dashboard view for the EHR.

Take a look at these sketches. We can talk about these on Tuesday. I’m interested in your thoughts.

See you Tuesday, if you can make it.

============================ here are the sketches ======================

I was reminded of these little bar graphs pioneered by Stephen Few and Edward Tufte.

So I thought of some ways to convey layers of information in a timeline graph, particularly with culture results, C diff results, and with procedure dates (and positive and negative findings).

Consider these sketches very preliminary.

They should foster discussion:

· What looks helpful?

· Can we change this?

· What if we combined these two elements?

· You have the shading just the opposite of what is helpful!

Offer your own sketches or annotations on these.

Jeff Belden MD

beldenj@health.missouri.edu

573-489-4206 m

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