By Julian Yu-Chung Chen 
(julian at evl.uic.edu)
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, 
University of Illinois at Chicago
2010-Jan-26

"Refinement of a web based software and 
method for nurses to document their 
patient care in the electronic health record 
and communicate with other members of 
the interdisciplinary team. 
The Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System (HANDS) 
is a standardized plan of care method in which the patient's 
plan is updated at every nurse hand-off allowing 
the interdisciplinary team to track the story 
about care and progress toward desired 
outcomes in a standardized format across time and units."

In the collaboration between UIC College of Nursing 
and College of Engineering, EVL is responsible to:

1. improve the original HANDS user interface for more 
potential users like doctors and therapists.

2. investigate and understand the needs of more 
potential users and add additional functionalities. 

3. add visualization to HANDS existing reports and 
empower current and future users to do more 
data exploration and visual analytics.