Guidance – Find a Patient
Introduction
The Design Guidance – Find a Patient document provides you with guidance
and recommendations for implementing patient search functionality in clinical applications.
It enables reliable and robust searching of patient records, while enhancing patient
safety and providing an effective user experience, by:
- Facilitating rapid and effective searching of patient records
- Reducing the likelihood of failed or erroneous searches
- Supporting relevant information governance rules and policies within a usable and
clear workflow
- Facilitating consistency with the design of other interface components
Summary
The guidance focuses on the dynamics of searching national patient databases, but
also identifies higher level principles that can be applied across a broader range
of scenarios. It includes recommendations for:
- Determining application context of patient search
- Eliciting search criteria
- Supporting relevant information governance rules and policies
- Presenting search results
- Providing repair strategies for failed searches
- Displaying query refinement forms