Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais

A dear project, after the 2010 earthquake devastated a lot of Haiti's healthcare system, I was chosen to lead the design of a sophisticated Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system for the newest and biggest University Hospital in Haiti, in the city of Mirebalais.

I was part of the team that developed a sophisticated Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system for the biggest University Hospital in Haiti, in the city of Mirebalais.

The EMR is based on OpenMRS and it performs key hospital functions, including patient registration, check-in, reporting and also stores and manages patient records.

The system had to be easy and intuitive to use since medical staff can’t let technology compromise patient care. For every new feature built, we iterated quickly on different solutions and evaluated which one would better solve the problem at hand.

Usability tests helped us break assumptions and adjust the system to users’ needs, such as making the application largely keyboard driven, given that a mouse navigation caused problems for users, some of whom had little or no computer literacy.

The design was dedicated to serving Mirebalais needs, but a lot of the interactions we’ve built and the Live Style Guide we developed ended up included in the OpenMRS 2.0 package.