Visionary Data

Data visualization, particularly with medical informatics. Although doctors have been demonstrated to think more visually than the general population, health IT physician interfaces are almost exclusively text based. Inspired visual data, medical and otherwise, will be showcased here.

7/22/07

WorldVistA, VIPIS, IconoChart

From LinuxMedNews.com, posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS

Re: from the 1st WorldVistA Education Conference and Seminar at Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is a 3 day education event being put on by worldvista.org Highlights so far, Peter Bodke just demonstrated his VistA demonstration appliance version 1.0 that is available on Sourceforge.


He discusses: 'Iconic timeline based visualization of clinical data' by Dr. David Eibling and Dr. Augie Turano.


Discussed inspiration from Edward Tufte's work on presenting data and graphics. Why not build a graphic timeline for pathologies with icons and symbols? See IconoChart.com


Another phenomenal diagram of a patient timeline was demonstrated by Visual Patient Information System: VIPIS. The implementation is currently in proprietary .net using Intersys Cache object wrappers.


I agree with Dr. Valdes that "This is clearly the future of where EMR's need to go as it focuses not on just verbage and reports but actually gives you information at a glance. Think beyond dashboards."
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