NFP application
7 Jun
I am starting to put more time into a current project to build an NFP application to do basic NaProTRACK™ biomarker charting. My main objective is to build a charting tool that my wife could use in addition to her regular pencil/paper approach. I think e-charting holds a couple of distinct advantages:
- Beginners make lots of mistakes and the first few cycles usually end up being a mess trying to read.
- The paper approach does not have much room, chart wise, for teachers and/or students to make notes about mistakes and easily re-arrange biomarkers.
- Stamps placed over other stamps due to errors, mistakes, etc… are hard to denote. Notice a trend developing here?
- Paper charts don’t calculate anything for you meta data wise. No post peak phase, total cycle days, etc…
- Paper charts don’t tell you when you are making mistakes while your in the process of charting.
Envision an e-chart that has history for every biomarker including all changes, mistakes, and dates available at a mouse click combined with auto detect logic that senses when the user is making a mistake and prompts them with the correct data input and reason. Pencil/paper is hard to argue against for the bare bones approach, but a web solution done right would be a great learning utility for all NFP practitioners.
The current NaProTRACK™ tool I have built is still in the early beta phase (FYI – more like Alpha in reality). Architectural ground work, data model, and CMS have all been completed and integrated. Just a matter of flusing out the functionality with robust OOP code and a boat load of testing – always easier said then done! I’ll be back with an update in August.
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