Ouïvia Field and Office: designing around the working day.
The Field and Office Windows development prototypes have made tangible progress. We've also finalized the target technician workflow and the boundaries around worker-history access.
Development status: These are early software builds using fictional records. They are not a production clinical service, approved provincial system or commercial service open for registration.
What we've built and exercised
- Ouïvia Field: a Windows development application with two independent worker testing forms, questionnaire sections, threshold entry, audiograms, counselling notes and locally stored draft work. The compact booth tabs let a technician switch between workers without losing their form positions.
- Ouïvia Office: a Windows management development application with employer/worksite and visit scheduling foundations, plus tools for preparing and importing fictional assignments.
- Offline foundations: transactional local storage, durable outbox and recovery mechanisms are under active development and automated regression testing.
- CADS: our draft Canadian Audiometric Data Standard continues to define the common records and jurisdiction-specific context.
Automated tests and installer builds do not establish production security, privacy compliance, clinical classification or end-to-end authenticated synchronization.
The Field workflow we've agreed
- Sign in and open the technician's calendar, with employer appointments shown at their arrival times.
- Open an employer appointment, check contact, address and notes, and choose Begin Testing.
- Search or add a worker, then load workers into the two booths. Worker records follow the worker even when physical booth positions change.
- Verify identity, collect intake and history, enter audiograms and document results while switching freely between booths.
- Counsel the worker, add notes, save the test and print a result when needed. Only durably saved worker tests receive a Tested marker.
- Mark the employer appointment Completed from the worker list. Untested roster entries remain unmarked. Completion works offline; synchronization updates Office later.
History follows the worker, with controlled access
The intended record model preserves a worker's audiometric history across employers and testing providers. An authorized field technician may consult relevant historical audiograms and technician notes when testing a worker for an active employer appointment. On appointment completion, that temporary history access must end immediately—even offline. This requires rigorous identity, privacy, authorization and device-security controls before any real-world deployment.
Workers are intended to have ongoing verified access to their available testing history. Authorized provider staff can access and export tests attributed to their own organization. Employers can obtain only the records and reports they are permitted to receive for testing performed for them, subject to applicable provincial rules.
What comes next
- Calendar-first login, appointment details and searchable worker rosters.
- Physical booth swapping with complete separation of each worker's test data.
- Authenticated, automatic Office–Field synchronization, including reliable offline appointment completion.
- Secure appointment-scoped worker history with immediate offline access termination.
- Provider records, individual staff authorization, reporting and exports.
- Independent privacy, security and province-specific regulatory validation.
Ouïvia — Hearing Pathway, by Audiometrics Canada — is being developed with Alberta as its first commercial market. We will continue to distinguish established design decisions, working prototypes and unfinished capabilities as the platform progresses.