Favorites: Favoriting Drugs, Diagnoses, and more
The Problem: Too many choices!
Examples:
Diagnosis:
Diarrhea has ~60 possible options in KenyaEMR/KenyaNHDD → painful to pick a simple Diarrhea concept for a simple walk-in OPD case!
A clinician with a Chest Pain NYD case got tired of searching for the right Dx concept (looked like all of ICD 10 was in the choice list) → got tired and picked a random one (Cardiomegaly)!
Users typing “c” instead of “cough” (Sri Lanka EMRs) for a faster UX
Drugs: Have to search Drug Order field every single time just to find a common drug you prescribe for most patients (e.g. in some OPDs, most patients are always prescribed Acetaminophen)
In Dec 2024 at the OCL Workshop before the OpenHIE Conference in Sri Lanka, members of OCL, OpenMRS, and the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health sat to discuss and brainstorming how to solve the “Too Many Choices” problem. The result was:
