Thursday, February 22, 2007

Graphical Summary of Patient Status

Seth Powsner and Edward Tufte have a great idea for how to concisely represent a plethora of medical data.  This graph allows medical personnel to know the history and current measurement of a patient at a glance.

Read the paper here.  See page 3 to get an idea of how much patient information could be shown on one page.  Simply brilliant!

See more of Tufte's writings here.

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