TY - JOUR AU - Lerner, Julia PY - 2018/08/07 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Interactive Surgical Depiction for the Electronic Medical Record JF - Journal of Biocommunication JA - JBC VL - 42 IS - 1 SE - Published Abstracts - Poster Presentations DO - 10.5210/jbc.v42i1.9191 UR - https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/jbc/article/view/9191 SP - AB - With the transition to electronic medical record (EMR) technology,<br />traditional paper charts are seldom used and less accessible to clinicians. In the past, written documentation of operations were frequently supplemented by a sketch by the surgeon. This thesis explores the design of a digital interactive tool to enable surgeons to quickly and accurately document the patient’s post-procedural anatomy in an image. This tool is unique in that it presets a preexisting 3D model which the user may split, remove, and reconnect to represent changes to the patient’s gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Through an intuitive interface, the surgeon will manipulate a 3D model of normal GI anatomy to depict resections and reconnections of bowel at appropriate distances and configurations and include elements such as drains, measurements,<br />and annotations. The surgeon can then save the image with the postoperative note to follow the patient. As a part of the EMR, the image is available for viewing by practitioners responsible for post-operative care and subsequent diagnoses and procedures, contributing to overall patient safety. ER -