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. 2020 Aug 18;20:195. doi: 10.1186/s12911-020-01194-y

Table 3.

Identified information needs and design elements to address those needs

Identified Information Needa Design Element
Distinguish systolic from diastolic data points Color differentiation
Visualize clinic home blood pressure data Include both on visualization
Differentiate clinic and home data Different symbols for sources
Contextual information about lifestyle and clinical events Annotations
Relationship between medication and blood pressure Blood pressure graph stacked with medication timeline
Understanding of blood pressure goals Shaded goal ranges, default to those appropriate for patients age and comorbidity
Visualize out of range values Shaded goal ranges were deemed sufficient, several ways of further highlighting out of range values were rejected by both groups
Customizable goal ranges Customization using radio buttons corresponding to common guidelines
See the raw data Include stacked data table
Patient burden for data entry Automated data upload from device
Understand variable blood pressure data Lowess smoothing line
Understand flow of data to care team Future design of workflow adaptations for comprehensive hypertension care

a All identified needs were expressed by both physicians and patients with the exception of customizable goal ranges, which was identified solely by physicians