Ever since the transition to electronic medical record systems for athletic staff at university sports programs, a tremendous amount of time has been spent on recording athletes’ data due to the fact that most EMR systems do not provide a user friendly interface and are not easily accessible, so athletic trainer often record data and then copy it into the system at the end of the day. How do I assume that? Over the summer my colleague and me have concluded around 80 interviews with different athletic trainers in U.S. colleges, ranging from D1 to Junior level programs, and the collected data shows that ATs spend anywhere from 2-4 hours a day on documentation. This holds true for the ATs at UH as well. My proposed solution to this problem is an easily accessible web application for the UH athletics community where data can be entered and received easily on both ends to save time on documentation and make up more time to actually treat UH’s athletes.
The landing page will be a login portal to either sign in as an athlete or AT. Logged in as athlete, the athlete can only see their Treatment profile page, where injury reports, current rehab plan and a comment section for any other issues is displayed. The athlete will only be able to edit the comment section. Logged in as an AT, the athletic trainer can look up any registered athlete and go to their page and edit injury report, rehab plans, and leave a comment for the athlete.
After implementing the web application and integrating the features to the website, these future advancements to the application could be in scope for this project: