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Objective Implement a user-centred digital health information system to facilitate rapidly and substantially increasing the number of patients treated for hypertension in low/middle-income countries.  Methods User-centred design of Simple, an offline-first app for mobile devices to record patient clinical visits and a web-based dashboard to monitor programme performance.  Results The Simple mobile application scaled rapidly over the past 4 years to reach more than 11 400 primary care facilities in four countries with over 3 million patients enrolled. Simple achieved median duration for new patient registration of 76 s (IQR 2 s) and follow-up visit entry of 13 s (IQR 1 s).  Conclusions A fast, easy-to-use digital information system for hypertension programmes that accommodates healthcare worker time constraints by minimising data entry and focusing on key performance indicators can successfully reach scale in low-resource settings.  All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplemental information. All referenced data are derived from published material and can be accessed where cited.

Keep it simple: designing a user-centred digital information system to support chronic disease management in low/middle-income countries

https://informatics.bmj.com/content/30/1/e100641

https://www.loom.com/share/59609eb7a3ab4f36869289a5d4cd1191

It’s time to go digital A strong digital information system can mean the difference between a health program that fails and one that saves millions of lives. Download the playbook Design the best digital tool to support your hypertension (or other NCD) management program—with step-by-step guidance from the world’s leading experts. Download the playbook Download […]

Hypertension digital tool playbook

https://resolvetosavelives.org/cardiovascular-health/hypertension/digital-tool-playbook

Background Hypertension affects 28.5% of Indians aged 18–69. Real-time registration and follow-up of persons with hypertension are possible with point-of-care d...

Discovery, development, and deployment of a user-centered point-of-care digital information system to treat and track hypertension and diabetes patients under India Hypertension Control Initiative 2019–2022, India - Parasuraman Ganeshkumar, Aarti Bhatnagar, Daniel Burka, Kiran Durgad, Ashish Krishna, Bidisha Das, Mahima Chandak, Meenakshi Sharma, Roopa Shivasankar, Anupam Khungar Pathni, Abhishek Kunwar, Prabhdeep Kaur, 2024

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20552076241250153

Example icons from the Health Icons collection.

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Software can play a critical role in improving patient care and the success of health programs, but we need to commit to develop high performance and easy-to-use software to deliver on the promises of digital health.

Digital Health Tools Are Too Slow and Too Hard to Use

https://globalhealthnow.org/2024-08/digital-health-tools-are-too-slow-and-too-hard-use

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YloFi80QoXPk5-U9ga1Ivxojamy7dU4MsaUNnQs8Rig/edit#heading=h.wra0isubf3sg

Fast, free software for clinicians to manage patients with hypertension & diabetes.

Simple.org

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2023/22_0232.htm

A practical guide for user testing your software, so healthcare workers will love it. The guide is based on 6 years of experience user testing Simple, DHIS2, OpenSRP, and other digital health tools.

Guide: Fast & simple user testing for healthcare

https://www.simple.org/blog/fast-and-simple-user-testing-for-healthcare/

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Writing a peer-reviewed journal article that was published in the British Medical Journal was certainly an experience. If you've never done it, the process is onerous — it took about 9 months, with a ton of help. Worth it, but 😅 https://informatics.bmj.com/content/30/1/e100641

I tried Loom for the first time to practice a presentation. Worked nicely. Want a sneak peak at a presentation that I'm giving to a group at Github next week about design in public health? https://www.loom.com/share/59609eb7a3ab4f36869289a5d4cd1191

For anyone working on digital tools used in busy clinical environments, we published a Playbook of everything we've learned designing and developing Simple over the last 6 years. https://resolvetosavelives.org/cardiovascular-health/hypertension/digital-tool-playbook

I only learned today that the 3-dot overflow menu is called a "kebab menu." Makes sense, I guess, and I love a good kebab, but is that really common parlance in design now?

In public health, publishing in academic journals is an important part of spreading important messages. We co-authored this article about user-centered design with Dr Ganesh from the India Council of Medical Research. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20552076241250153

We added a bunch of new icons to the Healthicons.org project. There are now 1198 icons! New icons:
- Sonography
- Alcohol
- Varicose vein
- Blood vessel
- Intestine
- Fruit
- Patient ID band
- FHIR logo
- Exercise bike

I'm craving inspiration. What are your favorite well-designed websites that inspire you right now? 🌈

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Why did you get into design or technology? Or whatever type of work you do...

Whose work do you admire? Why? Curious whose work is respected today.

Do you design with or without music? 

Recently read a research paper stating music decreases productivity (but some light background music can increase creativity)

Personally I’m almost always listening to something, should I not? 🥷

I actually named a Figma layer today. Who knows, maybe I'll start caring?

I wrote an op-ed in Global Health Now last week that's focused on user-centered design in public health. Your feedback would be most welcome. https://globalhealthnow.org/2024-08/digital-health-tools-are-too-slow-and-too-hard-use

Thank you to whoever at Intercom's design team who published these career ladders online. They're an amazing resource. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YloFi80QoXPk5-U9ga1Ivxojamy7dU4MsaUNnQs8Rig/edit#heading=h.wra0isubf3sg

Dr Krishna has published an article in a CDC journal that shows our app Simple.org saves nurses ~24 min each day, compared to paper records. That's HUGE for overworked nurses who can focus more on patient care. ⏲️👏 https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2023/22_0232.htm

Our team just created a super practical 45-minute video teaching how to test software with healthcare workers. Please share it! https://www.simple.org/blog/fast-and-simple-user-testing-for-healthcare/

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