healthcare-emr-patterns

# Healthcare EMR Development Patterns Patterns for building Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. Prioritizes patient safety, clinical accuracy, and practitioner efficiency. ## When to Use - Building patient encounter workflows (complaint, exam, diagnosis, prescription) - Implementing clinical note-taking (structured + free text + voice-to-text) - Designing prescription/medication modules with drug interaction checking - Integrating Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) - Building lab result displays with reference range highlighting - Implementing audit trails for clinical data - Designing healthcare-accessible UIs for clinical data entry ## How It Works ### Patient Safety First Every design decision must be evaluated against: "Could this harm a patient?" - Drug interactions MUST alert, not silently pass - Abnormal lab values MUST be visually flagged - Critical vitals MUST trigger escalation workflows - No clinical data modification without audit trail ### Single-Page Encounter Flow Clinical encounters should flow vertically on a single page — no tab switching: ``` Patient Header (sticky — always visible) ├── Demographics, allergies, active medications │ Encounter Flow (vertical scroll) ├── 1. Chief Complaint (structured templates + free text) ├── 2. History of Present Illness ├── 3. Physical Examination (system-wise) ├── 4. Vitals (auto-trigger clinical scoring) ├── 5. Diagnosis (ICD-10/SNOMED search) ├── 6. Medications (dr...