# About the RCPCH Epilepsy12 Audit Engine

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**Created:** 2022-03-27 00:00 UTC
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## Post #1 by @marcusbaw

https://rcpch.github.io/about-the-rcpch-audit-engine-epilepsy12/#/2/2
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> ## RCPCH Audit Engine
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> ## Epilepsy12 Platform March 2022
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> ### The RCPCH Epilepsy12 Audit
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> * National Audit of Epilepsy care for the first 12 months following diagnosis
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> ### Drawbacks with the existing E12 platform
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> * No API, meaning there is no way for other systems to send data automatically
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> * Poor user interface
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> * Many redundant questions and required inputs, which made filling in the audit quite arduous
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> * Correspondingly low response rate
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> * Proprietary software, supplied by external contractor.
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> * Limited options for improvement of UI or additional features eg API
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> ### Screenshot of 'old' E12 platform
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> ### Application approach
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> (This bit is for the geeks - it's not necessary to understand this stuff to understand the project as a whole.)
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> * [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/) - a well established, open-source Python-based web framework
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> * An API comes as standard (well, with very minimal additional effort) with Django
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> * Reliable framework in use with Instagram, Spotify, YouTube, Dropbox and Eventbrite [ref](https://djangostars.com/blog/10-popular-sites-made-on-django/)
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> ### User Interface approach
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> * Using Django's native templating and server-side rendering for the majority of the app
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> * Semantic UI - an open source UI toolkit
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> * Pared-down UI to streamline data entry
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> * In the future, some sites may be able to pre-fill data fields via the API, saving further user time
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> ### Data model approach
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> * Detailed review of every field of the existing data model was conducted
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> * Many unused fields removed
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> * Streamlined data model based on real-world requirements for
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> ### API detail
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> * REST API is a widely used and understood web standard
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> * Relatively simple to integrate a Trust EPR with an external API
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> * Independent of the system used by the Trust
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> ### Interface detail
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> * Web-based interface, browser-based
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> * Independent of the operating system in use
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> #### This presentation made with
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> #### [reveal.js](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js)
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> #### [excalidraw](https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw)

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