About the RCPCH Epilepsy12 Audit Engine

https://rcpch.github.io/about-the-rcpch-audit-engine-epilepsy12/#/2/2

RCPCH Audit Engine

Epilepsy12 Platform March 2022


The RCPCH Epilepsy12 Audit

  • National Audit of Epilepsy care for the first 12 months following diagnosis

Drawbacks with the existing E12 platform

  • No API, meaning there is no way for other systems to send data automatically

  • Poor user interface

  • Many redundant questions and required inputs, which made filling in the audit quite arduous

  • Correspondingly low response rate

  • Proprietary software, supplied by external contractor.

  • Limited options for improvement of UI or additional features eg API


Screenshot of ‘old’ E12 platform


Application approach

(This bit is for the geeks - it’s not necessary to understand this stuff to understand the project as a whole.)

  • Django - a well established, open-source Python-based web framework

  • An API comes as standard (well, with very minimal additional effort) with Django

  • Reliable framework in use with Instagram, Spotify, YouTube, Dropbox and Eventbrite ref


User Interface approach

  • Using Django’s native templating and server-side rendering for the majority of the app

  • Semantic UI - an open source UI toolkit

  • Pared-down UI to streamline data entry

  • In the future, some sites may be able to pre-fill data fields via the API, saving further user time


Data model approach

  • Detailed review of every field of the existing data model was conducted

  • Many unused fields removed

  • Streamlined data model based on real-world requirements for


API detail

  • REST API is a widely used and understood web standard

  • Relatively simple to integrate a Trust EPR with an external API

  • Independent of the system used by the Trust


Interface detail

  • Web-based interface, browser-based

  • Independent of the operating system in use

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