Re: [Health] Recognizing newborns as patients

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Hedayat !


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah <address@hidden> wrote:
> Any comments? Suggestions? or ... ? :P
>
> Hedayat Vatankhah <address@hidden> wrote on Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:46:03
> +0430:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We are investigating the possibility of using GNU Health in a children
> specific health center in Iran. This center treats newborns from other
> hospitals too. It seems that we cannot adopt GNU Health in its current form
> to the needs of this center. It seems that we really need to register a
> newborn as a patient in the system, because newborns in this hospital are
> really "patients", but they also should have newborn specific information
> (e.g. the APGAR score) so we need both patient and newborn functionality.
> Our conclusion is that a newborn should actually be registered as a patient
> in the system. It has an added benefit that we can track the full history of
> a person, including its newborn info. Also, "patient" module can decide
> about the relevant info for a specific patient based on his/her age: e.g. if
> (s)he is a newborn, newborn sheets should be included. It might recognize
> other groups as well (newborn, child, adult, elderly).

The reason we have a newborn as a "separate entity" is because it does
not have the ID immediately.

The best way to take care of this situation is to link the patient to
the newborn, with a many2one field. Then you would have all the
information. Now, you still need to come up the issue of the ID.

We can implement that feature in the upcoming 1.6.3 version. We'll
open a wishlist item in Savannah.

Bests
>
> We are probably going to implement such functionality, but before that we'd
> like to know about your opinions about such a change, and if there is
> anything wrong with such an implementation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hedayat
>
>
>
>



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