shihjay2
Suggestion feature
From @shihjay2 on July 1, 2016 2:16
At the same location on the computer screen, in all locations throughout the EMR, there should be a “suggestion” button. When clicked, a text window opens and the dialog box reads “Enter you suggestion to improve this EMR below. Your suggestion, along with your location in the EMR and other relevant EMR data will be sent to the CIO, MD, who should be a practicing physician that uses the EMR on a regular basis. The CIO, MD should assemble an “EMR re-design” team to sort through these suggestions and prioritize which changes should be made to the EMR by the CTO and his/her team. It is imperative that the power to decide whether and when a new feature should be added to the EMR should reside with the clinicians, not with the technologists.
In my opinion, a suggested new feature should be added to the EMR if it creates no unresolvable security issues and proposed feature meets any of these criteria:
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will likely be used by many users
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has the potential to improve the efficiency of the health care provider
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has the potential to reduce the cost of healthcare
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has the potential to improve the quality of healthcare
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has the potential to promote patient engagement
Technical issues, like it is “too technically difficult” or “the IT department has other priorities” or “it cannot be done” are not acceptable reasons to fail to add a new feature to an EMR. As a programmer, I know that there is always a way to circumvent almost all technical issues.
Copied from original issue: shihjay2/nosh-core#30
Ross Koppel has written extensively about this. Search: ross koppel reporting EHR bugs
Added direct link to create a bug report or suggestion under the user name dropdown. Commit be6e2d033ba2ddabf45eae10fa9e91fe46c58123