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Program Overview

W81XWH-11-2-0025: Visual Dashboard and Heads-up Display of Patient Conditions

The Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) is conducting a multi-year program funded by the Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) to support design and prototyping efforts to develop a novel technology system for a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). PIIM is collaborating with the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) to identify requirements, define design and implementation, and test this system with PCMH providers and patients.

The technical objectives for this project include:

1. Creating a visual style for a patient dashboard to be used within a Medical Home environment
2. Developing a user experience strategy to navigate the patient dashboard
3. Developing an information strategy and schema of available and preferred data sources
4. Developing the GUI design for the patient dashboard
5. Engineering an interactive prototype of the patient dashboard with CDR and preferred data sources integrated
6. Testing and evaluating the patient dashboard
7. Redesigning and redeveloping the patient dashboard based upon user feedback

Program Deliverables

Scope of Deliverables
The deliverables completed during this project include a mixture of research, analysis, reporting/documentation, GUI design and visualization, usability study/measurement, engineering assessment and planning, and technology development. There will be four main types of deliverables completed in this project:

• GUI Design Volume - This document is a comprehensive, pixel-level detail document that outlines the visual style guide, design assets, GUI screen designs, workflow diagrams, and all other design-related documentation necessary to provide a complete picture of the visual dashboard.
• Information Strategy Volume - This is a comprehensive document detailing the information needs, availabilities, and aggregation requirements of all data repository information utilized by the visual dashboard. This document provides information for all users, roles, and groups and all GUI screen designs and workflows.
• Engineering Volume - This is a technical document providing software engineering diagrams, component and system descriptions, software development guidelines/requirements/environment, and information detailing the components of the interactive prototype. This document also includes information on the prototype server infrastructure and hosting environment.
• Assessment Volume - This document aggregates the results of the internal review and MHS presentation/feedback sessions for the GUI design and engineering phases of this project. This document records the review findings, feedback given, and provides guidance for any required enhancements/modifications to the prototype throughout this project's Period of Performance (POP).

Schedule of Delivery
This document - the Detailed GUI Volume - is the first iteration deliverable to TATRC within the Design and Visualization track of the project. During the twelve (12) month timeframe of this project PIIM will deliver three (3) more iterations of this document at each quarterly milestone. These document deliveries accompany additional deliveries (documents/reports or technology components) from the Engineering and Usability teams on the same schedule and timeframe.

The anticipated schedule of all deliveries is:

Quarter 1: February 15, 2011

• Final project objective and mission statement to address clinical needs with the visual dashboard
• First iteration GUI Design Volume detailing the GUI design of the visual dashboard
• First iteration Information Strategy Volume documenting the data/information requirements and availabilities for the visual dashboard
• Formal, Quarterly Status Report following TATRC guidelines

Quarter 2: May 15, 2011

• Second iteration GUI Design Volume detailing the GUI design of the visual dashboard
• Second iteration Information Strategy Volume documenting the data/information requirements and availabilities for the visual dashboard
• First iteration Assessment Volume documenting the internal review of the GUI visual style and design assets against industry best-practices
• Formal, Quarterly Status Report following TATRC guidelines

Quarter 3: August 15, 2011

• Third iteration GUI Design Volume detailing the GUI design of the visual dashboard
• Third iteration Information Strategy Volume documenting the data/information requirements and availabilities for the visual dashboard
• Second iteration Assessment Volume documenting the initial internal review and MHS feedback on the visual dashboard
• Formal, Quarterly Status Report following TATRC guidelines

Quarter 4: November 15, 2012

• Third iteration GUI Design Volume detailing the GUI design of the visual dashboard
• Third iteration Information Strategy Volume documenting the data/information requirements and availabilities for the visual dashboard
• First iteration Engineering Volume documenting the software development requirements of the visual dashboard prototype
• Formal, End of Year Status Report following TATRC guidelines

Quarter 5: February 15, 2012

• Fourth iteration GUI Design Volume detailing the GUI design of the visual dashboard 2) Fourth iteration Information Strategy Volume documenting the data/information requirements and availabilities for the visual dashboard 3) Second iteration Engineering Volume documenting the software development requirements of the visual dashboard prototype 4) Formal, Quarterly Status Report following TATRC guidelines

Quarter 6: May 15, 2012

• Fifth iteration GUI Design Volume detailing the GUI design of the visual dashboard
• Fifth iteration Information Strategy Volume documenting the data/information requirements and availabilities for the visual dashboard
• Third iteration Engineering Volume documenting the software development requirements of the visual dashboard prototype
• Third iteration Assessment Volume documenting the initial internal review (GUI), MHS feedback (GUI), and internal review (interactive prototype)
• Formal, Quarterly Status Report following TATRC guidelines

Quarter 7: August 15, 2012

• Sixth iteration GUI Design Volume detailing the GUI design of the visual dashboard
• Sixth iteration Information Strategy Volume documenting the data/information requirements and availabilities for the visual dashboard
• Fourth iteration Engineering Volume documenting the software development requirements of the visual dashboard prototype
• Fourth iteration Assessment Volume documenting the initial internal review (GUI), MHS feedback (GUI), internal review (interactive prototype), and MHS feedback (interactive prototype)
• Formal, Quarterly Status Report following TATRC guidelines

Quarter 8: November 30, 2012

• Final iteration GUI Design Volume detailing the GUI design of the visual dashboard
• Final iteration Information Strategy Volume documenting the data/information requirements and availabilities for the visual dashboard
• Final iteration Engineering Volume documenting the software development requirements of the visual dashboard prototype
• Final iteration Assessment Volume documenting the initial internal review (GUI), MHS feedback (GUI), internal review (interactive prototype), and MHS feedback (interactive prototype)
• Formal, Close of Project Status Report following TATRC guidelines

Program Methodology

Overview
To successfully complete the work and deliverables within this project, PIIM is and will engage in a variety of research and development focused activities. Additionally, in order to maximize advancement of the AHLTA GUI redesign efforts PIIM will employ its Visualization Driven Rapid Prototyping (VDRP) method which integrates GUI design, engineering, and usability in an iterative and deliverables-focused project methodology.

PIIM approaches this project with quarterly milestones as central benchmarks towards its success. Each milestone provides closure to a specific iteration of effort, analysis of current and previous iteration activities (as necessary), and planning and engagement for the next iteration. This iterative methodology provides PIIM's GUI / Visualization, Engineering, and Usability Teams the capability to set and achieve measurable and traceable successes building upon the knowledge gained in previous iterations and through other efforts underway in DoD and MHS.

More information on PIIM's Visualization Driven Rapid Prototyping method can be found online at: http://piim.newschool.edu/about/the-PIIM-process.