Why Medical Devices require a Modern UI?
A familiar approach to medical devices through User Interface(UI), can enhance and establish a happy-go relation between patients and Health Care Professionals (HCPs). Is it a disruptive idea or a destructive one?
By Dhwani Bhatt
The era of massive paperwork and the black-and-green screen has passed away, the rapid evolution in modern technology accelerated growth in several industries. Yet the outdated technology in the medical field is an anomaly. With the rise of smart devices and advanced visual aesthetics, it’s now a matter of necessity to foster a consistent User Interface to keep up the market demand. The advancement from just reading display screens to practically operating equipment contributed to UI growth.
According to the research and current statistics because of device intricacy and errors, an average of 12,000 patients are killed or going through some complications.
Medication errors, which are the most common flaws nowadays, miscommunication errors due to handwriting or communication gap, and in the wake of a wide range of target audiences, it is essential to sort and organize the data using a modern software User Interface. UI not only lowers the training cost but also decreases the adoption time. A huge mass could be acknowledged about the medical device landscape.
For proper Electronic Health Record(EHR) access, and for a seamless data exchange, there is a need for an interface. In 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published a Health Information Exchange Challenge Grant Program which said that included a call for proposals for “enabling enhanced query for patient care.” One goal was to develop a usable, web-based user interface (UI) for patients to express their preferences about who could access what data in their EHRs.
The pc displays and handheld devices need to be modernized for user convenience, the devices should undergo significant development as per user need, with decent colors having no shadows and gradient, and a responsive design to maintain consistency providing a friendly ecosystem.
Strategic planning and streamlining are obligatory in the medical sector to bring UI into effect. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), Automated X-Ray UI using API calls through an interactive UI Testing System, and Graphical User Interface (FXD-CSD-GUI) are some examples of the adoption of modern technology in the medical sector, which is giving access to high-quality medical technologies, from remote areas, which increases access to care and decreased mobility cost.
The commencement of UI/UX in this Medtech world shows the concern of a clinician towards his patient, decentralizing medical technology should be emphasized on the double at tech-prone areas. Rapid Prototyping can be considered as one of the solutions which will give a good touch of modern technology, by creating anatomical objects using 3D techniques, which again requires expertise in UI.
Modern UI provides purposeful and detailed animations of the human body, the UI designers provide easy to read fonts as per user convenience, with some smart input features and customized or personalized interface soothes the user’s mind, even they are trying user adaptable interfaces by approaching Neuromorphism: providing users a more realistic interface.
Proper data security protocol makes it more reliable and secure. Like by setting automatic logout time, implementing Html5 Content, Run Robust Testing, and providing encryption where needed.
A good UI will provide a smooth blend of visual designs, voice user interface, and menu-driven, which benefits a sense of control and reliability.
Every sector is becoming digital and adopting modern technology, then why not the medical field, health is more important than wealth, there are 90% of preventable harms, which are caused due to medical negligence, such type of risks and error can be controlled by using UI based techniques. It can increase the employment rate, will result in fast and easy work, can help us in pandemics, one can operate equipment in the absence of professionals, time, money, health, and risks can be managed efficiently, now its time to get rid of black-and-green screen and outdated technologies, acquiring new techniques is beneficial for today as well as for tomorrow, the coming generation will be more advanced and innovative, their ideas will be more realistic, so to push them towards advancement, we should adopt and accept the coming changes, good user technology is the future of healthcare, these are some disruptive ideas, which will lead you towards vibrant future like those aesthetic interfaces.
A better understanding of this informative architecture will help you in various sectors, from gaining profit to altruism, everything is designed, and designed impressively, widen your eyes to see the unseen, extract the ‘tech’ from ‘technology’, and believe that the future is more powerful and realistic than past.
