Healthcare IT at present is simply not good enough and poor usability is one of the key issues facing the sector, adversely impacting clinicians
at the frontline and impacting the care process.
PulseTile is an open source user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) framework developed by the non profit Ripple Foundation, grown
from the NHS in England, that is promoting and supporting the adoption of an open health and care platform to transform 21st Century health
care. Designed with the complexity of healthcare in mind, it leverages key patterns in healthcare to deliver a modular User Experience and User
Interface framework that is intuitive and simple to use.
The Ripple Foundation wish to offer the open source PulseTile UX/UI framework to the Global Goods Digital Health Initiative on the basis that
it offers a uniquely useful usability framework for healthcare that could support clinicians around the globe, and has specifically been
developed to be
Easy to implement and scale- using leading standard web based technologies
Adaptable to different countries and contexts - on the basis of core Tiles and plugin Tiles
Interoperable with other digital health technologies via an open set of restful APIs
Open sourced, publicly and freely available online, under the leading Apache 2.0 license
While we understand and expect the Global Goods initiative could/should will offer a broad range of tools, given the critical role that usability
plays at the frontline of healthcare, we advocate that a simple, helpful, clinically led, user experience/user interface framework for staff and
patients, such as PulseTile, is needed to transform the global digital health sector, so we now wish to share PulseTile with the wider world as a
Global Good. The primary outcome we seek is a user centred framework in healthcare that patients and staff want to use.