Development of a Health Dashboard for an Electronic Health Record System

This article presents the strategies used for the development and implementation of a dashboard for an Electronic Health Record System, specifically the platform called SigSaude, which integrates the student-run clinics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Built over a set of ELK Stack software, the SigSaude dashboard allows the visual analysis of patient information through interactive graphics, facilitating the process of data interpretation by researchers and managers and supporting a data-based decision approach. In this paper the authors describe the development process in four steps: configuring the database for Logstash, masking the data and obtaining the geolocation to create the dataset, indexing data using Elasticsearch, and building indexed data views using Kibana. The authors also present the current version of the SigSaude dashboard which displays graphs involving the users' blood type, marital status, whether they know their parents or not, ethnicity and age, as well as a map component that makes it possible to see the number of registered users by city. Finally, the authors discuss the lessons learned on the development of the SigSaude dashboard.