Re: [Gnumed-devel] Measurement workflows - value colour red

[Busser, Jim]

On 2013-07-16, at 4:25 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho <address@hidden> wrote:

Sorry if I killed Jim's fight ... but I really think more than 1 color on the exams will throw attention off what matters ... 

As another factor, we have differences of experience and sometimes apprehensions, while reasonable ("not unreasonable"), prove unfounded.

Having used a system in which I encountered two colours that nobody explained to me, I did think to myself "hmm … why are some cells pink and others blue"? Then, I saw that

- every pink cell value was numeric and followed by "  h" (for "high"), and fell above its tooltip reference range

- every blue cell was numeric and followed by "  l" (for "low"), and fell below its tooltip reference range

and I then relaxed, and adopted it as both easy to disregard (if I so chose), and as helpful.

I suspect some of our on-list design apprehensions come from our personal experience with technically less-expereinced colleagues who are age > 50 (though I am 52) as "having difficulty to figure such things out"

If however GNUmed is going to be used in 5 - 15 years , which is my hope, I may be uncomfortable to receive care from any future clinician, in an electronic age, who cannot deduce how something works from information that is pretty obviously available within the GUI.

-- Jim