Title:	THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF A PROTOTYPE HCI FOR USE IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
Author(s):	Gill Jones , Gillian Pearce , Saud Khan
ISBN:	972-8939-03-5
Editors:	Pedro Isaías, Piet Kommers and Maggie McPherson
Year:	2005
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Cardiovascular, Human Computer Interface (HCI), Framingham, medical, prescription, system.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	249
Last Page:	255
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	There is an increasing demand for Medical software development but finding a system which integrates a combination of key personalised features, such as patient diagnosis, complex risk assessment, prescription compiling and web based searching is rare. The prototype system described here is designed for doctors dealing with cardiovascular patients and incorporates these functions, and uses a graphical HCI for clarity of operation and presentation of information. The prototype system uses equations derived from the Framingham model (Wood, 1998), based on cardiovascular risk factors, to calculate a 10 year risk of morbidity. Patient record facilities are incorporated which allow the user the option to add, delete, search and edit records. Patients can be diagnosed and be allocated medication through the use of the interactive prescription facility, which suggests lists of appropriate medicines. The system was designed from a cardiologist’s perspective, whilst maintaining key features and performance efficiency. The design was carried out using a combination of rapid application development (RAD) and structured systems analysis and design methodology (SSADM). Multimedia aspects were incorporated into the main Visual Basic v6 programs using Swish v2.01. The implementation of the system interface was completed to run under Windows 2000 via numerous tools: Adobe Photoshop, Swish, Paint and Visual Basic. Functionally, the system was designed using Visual Basic, Access, FrontPage and Notepad. The patient and medication data were held in an Access database. In summary, we have successfully developed a prototype for a professional, easy to use cardiovascular software system (CVS) which calculates patient risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and cardiovascular disease. It will cater for all cardiology based users and help remove the constant barrages of obstacles faced by them when using computer systems. Emphasis was placed throughout on the need to design a simple, user friendly, yet highly effective system.
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