Re: [Gnumed-devel] Forms and lab requests

[Ian Haywood]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:57:19 +0200
Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:

> > I note the inclusion of a VO for lab requests.
> > Does that mean separate VOs for radiology requests, allied health
> > requests, medical referrals etc. I have no objection in principle, but
> > I'm not sure how we would present this in the GUI, the number of
> > editareas (if we have one for each) would soon get out of control.
> 
> Hm, the thing is I am currently working on getting lab results
> handling working with GnuMed. Reason being that my parents
> need that today. 
That's a good reason.

> Yes, it could also mean we are going to have several request
> classes. I don't really fear that much proliferation since I
> am not observing that many types of requests in daily work,
> maybe 5 or so.

fair enough. 
> BTW, I plan on at least two "ways" of entering pending
> requests (sharing the code, of course): One for it being
> called from the macro processor (think by a controlling
> legacy app), the other by going to to a "lab journal" notebook
> plugin.
Sounds good.

The notebook is going to get overloaded however, even if you are selective 
about what
you load, you are still going to need 10-15 tabs for everyday work.

Perhaps we could have a tree widget on the left hand side. This is more 
capacious,
more familiar to users and easier to navigate than the tabs and icons "system" 
we have at present.
[sorry to perseverate about the GUI layout, but I think the status quo is just 
becoming more unsustainable]
> (BTW, what is an allied health
> request ?)

Physio, audiology, dietetics, &c. i.e. "non-medical" referrals, where the 
referral is on a generic form, 
instead of a letter to a specific individual. 

Ian
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