Faster Clinical Updates

Our users love the Clinical Updates feature of ClinicYou. When a clinician writes in a patient's medical record (EMR), all other associated clinicians involved in the patient's care are automatically notified by email (of course sensitive medical information is not part of these mailings).

When the other clinicians sign in, every update is displayed in their home page. This facility is now even faster and more responsive - and more usable. We will strive to achieve a better user experience.

Recent Updates And New Features

We have been working hard to make your EMR software responsive, faster and more intuitive. The recently released 'Task Bar' docked to the bottom of the screen is an example of our obsession with minimalism and user experience. In the last week, we made the clinical messaging system much faster and easier to use. The To Do system, a vital tool for clinical teams to remind each other to deal with important patient related matters, has been overhauled and streamlined too. We hope these changes will make ClinicYou Web-based EMR and practice management system even more useful.

There are a lot of other new features in the offing, so please stay tuned. Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy the results of our efforts to enhance your user experience. As ever, if anything is not clear, please drop us a line and we will be right with you. 

Adoption of EMRs - A Generational Thing?

The clinical community is known for its resistance to paperless workflows and suspicious attitude to technology. However, it would seem a lot of this is a generational thing and change is already underway. 

Newer graduates often express their frustration in having to work with software seemingly created before the new millennium. One even has acquired the word 'Millennium' to its name, to celebrate the fact that four digit year fields were added.

The younger generation fo doctors and nurses grew up using tools that are well designed, intuitive and pleasant to use, so it is no wonder they feel the pain when they experience the pathetic design and user-experience commonly seen in most EMR software out there. They would like software that seamlessly drive their workflows without getting in the way - like most other software they have used. They will want light, agile, hardware platforms and  not black boxes chained to desks. They want innovative products that work together and transcends boundaries. 

Disappearing are the days when clinicians resisted electronic workflows. Provided the software tools on offer are innovative and modern, new entrants to the medical profession will wholeheartedly embrace paperless workflows. Here at ClinicYou, we are hard at work creating a clinical software platform for seamless workflows, improving clinical collaboration, whilst concentrating on a pleasant user experience.  We invite all like minded clinicians to try our flagship web based EMR software. 

EMR Meet Social Network

Of all our many features, the unique social media paradigm of collaborating on clinical records is a big hit. The ClinicYou EHR is a powerful platform for clinical collaboration, especially for multidisciplinary teams. Using a unique paradigm of 'Professional Networking', health records can be shared in a need to know basis, without having to separately generate a clinical communication such as a letter. Medical records can even be sent to clinicians who do not use our software - both by any of the clinicians involved in patient's care or by patients themselves.

All of the clinicians who have been resposible for the patient's care will be notified automatically when an entry is made in a patient's medical record. As a secondary reminder, these changes are highlighted in the clinician login page so that it is easy to access all these updates in one place. Thus, ClinicYou transforms how doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals work. Quick, easy and efficient clinical information sharing as part of normal working practices - just like social networks inform your friends about things that are important to you, ClinicYou can automatically inform your colleagues when you make decisions on your patients.

Exciting New Things To Do

As most people are settling back into their lives and embracing the New Year,  we have been planning and developing some exciting new things.

Although very intuitive, we recognise that some key parts of our flagship medical information system (EMR)  - like its messaging, to do, clinic scheduling etc., out could well improve. Here at ClinicYou, we strive to achieve the best possible user experience in an EMR software currently available. We are therefore working on changing how we handle these. 

Our solution, which will make the pages less cluttered and load faster, is to replace the exisitng interface with a task bar (or perhaps a task strip is a better term) which will remain hidden from view when not needed and will give you quick and easy access to all these key features. Parts of this development are currently test ready and we hope to deploy this soon.

Stay tuned for this and other features related to usability and user experience in the near future.