Re: [Gnumed-devel] SOAP widget

[Ian Haywood]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 02:00:18 +0200
Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:


> I would, for now, ignore the COMMAND part and only concern
> ourselves with the non-action soap things.
Good idea.

> Is there a way to keep track of which section one is in so we
> know which matcher to use ? 
AFAIK no, however as the documents we are dealing with are small, the penalty 
of rescanning
to find the nearest header should not be significant.
The wxStyledTextCtrl docs are at www.yellowbrain.com/stc/index.html, the 
interface is quite rich,
there may be a better way that I have overlooked.

> > which can be the "command" within a phrase (e.g. if a phrase starts with 
> > "prescribe:",
> > the matcher is gmDrugMatcher), or failing that,
> I would try to keep that possible but do it later.
We do need to think about the relationship between the "plan" and "assessment" 
section of SOAP and the editareas.
(although I agree we can have a useful SOAP widget before solving this)
In the paper world we are use to the concept of action and documentation being 
separate, viz.
I start a patient on amoxycillin, I write in the notes "amoxycillin 500mg QID", 
then write the same thing again
on the script. Needless to say, in an EHR this is a waste of both user and 
programmer time. 
Could we do everything through the SOAP widget?  Maybe a "magic" dialogue box 
on the side that changed depending 
on where the cursor is. So if the cursor rests where we have typed "Plan: refer 
cardiology", the sidebox has a listboxes of the 
names and addresses of cardiologists, and the "include meds" "include phx" 
checkboxes, and the "Print letter" button.  

Ian


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