Re: [Gnumed-devel] Common Forms

[Karsten Hilbert]

Forwarded:

> Whilst on the subject of form generation I'd like to make a few comments.
> 
>  99% of all the forms I use in general practice can be auto-generated in the 
> same format. We don't need different looking forms for each different 
> provider (eg Xray, Physio, Pathology etc. The information is always the same, 
> ie address/branch, patient details, request, clinical notes, associated text 
> (eg for cardiology request of say echocardiograph it would print out the 
> patient instructions/map of company etc.
> 
> I instututed such a form generator in my program several years ago. The forms 
> themselves never of course need to be kept, simply pointers to the type of 
> provider, type of request, patient_Id, request etc.
> 
> 
> I would hate to see a situation develop in gnumed such as we have here in  Oz 
> with Medical Director, where people are obsessed with templates and see this 
> as the one and only way of generating forms, when it is inherently 
> inefficient and a rather stupid and ineligant method of doing so.
> 
> Richard

Karsten
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