Re: [Gnumed-devel] patient search functionality revisited

[John Denning]

Hi Horst,

Might want to be able to type in their Clinic Patient ID #, DOB, National Patient ID, etc.

Also an issue with security for patients who don't want others to be able to see their record at all (celebrities, politicians).  I helped to implement a concept called "break the glass" for an EMR vendor in USA, that I can forward specifications to you.



On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 02:06, Horst Herb wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 23:56, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > Same in Thailand. Are you saying nickname use is so prominent
> > in Australia that Australian docs will want to be able to type
> > the nickname to pull up the record at the time the patient
>
> Yes. If you shout their "legal" name into the waiting room, chances are they 
> either don't react at all or it takes some time to realize that it is "them". 
> Many use their nick name literally to exclusion.
>
> > situation, e.g. when a patient presents to the front desk. I
> > want to be able to type
> >
> > "Karsten Hilbert"
> > "HIlbert, karsten"
> > "karsten, hilbert"
> > "kars, hilb"
> > "hilb; karsten, 23.10.74"
>
> I prefer to type 
> "ka hil"
> and that should present me with only a handful of choices at maximum from 
> which I select with the cursor keys in no time.
>
>
> > 1) name changes
> >    - marriage
> >    - old last name not found in database
>
> No problem, since names are normalized and versioned - meaning one query 
> accesses all past and current names at once and sorts them by "actuality" and 
> preference. That's the whole point in storing names in a separate table from 
> the "identity"
>
> Horst
>
>
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