Re: [Gnumed-devel] gmContact signal --> referrals

[Jim Busser]

On Jun 2, 2004, at 2:53 AM, Ian Haywood wrote:
> For organisations an event is not so important, as you usually refer 
> to someone *in* an organisation, not the
> organisation as a whole.

Usually, but there are times when you might refer to a group of 
specialists whose office, because of schedule uncertainty, may not 
right away be able to tell you which among the group's specialist will 
be the one to see the patient. It is better then to put the referral 
through to the group without (incorrectly) specifying either in the 
outgoing correspondence, or by capturing into the local GnuMed record, 
the individual who will be seeing the patient, because you do not yet 
know. The referral widget should then permit a referral to a branch 
(say a Division like Respirology) of an organization (say a particular 
hospital's Department of Medicine) without having to specify the 
individual.

While this is likely somewhat separate from the "signal" issue, I did 
not know if these might be linked.