9. Final Iteration
Final iteration is based on the final user testing and final research that we conduct. After conducting user testing, we gained insights and valued them based on the research we found. Some of them have adequate reasons for us to apply the feature with this short period of time. Some of them are ignored as we have a short time to do a certain task or other reasons that do not support our focus and goal at the moment.
As one of the interviewees reminded us that there are urgency categories that existed in the Queensland area, we began to research the urgency category in published documents online. We found out that there are three outpatient urgency category if a patient is in the waiting list. Urgent, Semi-Urgent, and Non-urgent. Urgent means that the specialist is recommended within 30 days after the referral wait list. 90 days for semi-urgent and 365 for non-urgent.
Patients are booked in for procedures according to how urgently they require treatment. The admissions register is managed so that the illest patients receive treatment first. from https://www.qld.gov.au/health/services/hospital-care/before-after
We feel this information is very important to be shown in the website application where the physician could see the urgency behind a referral. Thus, when the physicians or their assistant see the status or urgency category for the referral, they could see how important it is for them to respond to the referral. Physicians or their assistants also have the ability to search and sort for the urgency. The urgency will be divided into:
- Urgent
- Semi-urgent
- Non-urgent
When creating the referral, general practitioners have to pick the urgency aspect based on the patient condition. The referral made will be listed in the referral menu whereas physicians are able to see. Physician have full ability to choose over the referral that has lower urgency priority, however, it would be recommended for the physician to make an appointment with a patient that has higher priority. The options are illustrated simply by checkboxes that applied when creating the referral. This option is placed on the third instruction when building a referral.
What's missing from the previously coded prototype is the functionality to confirm a referral. In our final iteration, we implement this functionality in order to complete the flow of creating and confirming a referral. By having a pop-up window, users are able to have the opportunity to cancel and change several inputs that are not correct.
The final prototype is the prototype that we displayed in the exhibition.
All the final prototype detail info could be found in this page
Hospital care: before, during and after. https://www.qld.gov.au/health/services/hospital-care/before-after [Accessed 19 October. 2018]