One of my many side projects is working as the Database and Technology chair for our two student-run free clinics– Arbor Free Clinic and Pacific Free Clinic . Each clinic does an excellent job, serving hundreds of patients each year. 99% of our patients are uninsured, and we’ve had patients come from hundreds of miles away; the clinics are some of the only free clinics around, open on weekends.

The clinics both use a Stanford-managed database for collecting data (they’re great because they’re all HIPAA-compliant and… stuff), but we’ve always had trouble with the data entry. So I made it my goal to redesign the form to make it easier to enter and view the data. If you use a electronic medical record (or even if you don’t), take a look at my redesign and let me know what you think, or if you have ideas to make it more usable: Pacific Free Clinic New Patient Registration .

PS: I’m especially proud of the “diagnosis” field. Go down to it, start typing something, and it’ll filter out results until it finds the disease–it has our top 50 or so most common diseases. And even better, it enters the ICD9 for you automatically!

PPS: New pics up , from Las Vegas.

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