Re: [Gnumed-devel] Fwd: re: Possible development opportunity

[Karsten Hilbert]

> nullifies *what could have been an* advantage of an EMR  *for this 
> purpose* - their is no advantage of our being able to send electronic 
> lab requests to a lab that refuses to receive them
Ah, OK.

> but we could still input our lab requests, get them to print on 
> paper, give this to the patient and/or fax it to the lab. however 
That is what I meant.

> when the results come back, there can be a difference between a test 
> result code and a request code
true

> for example, I may order a "CBC" complete blood count
> - the lab sends me hemoglobin, red cell indices, white blood cell 
> count, platelet count
> - each has its own "test result code"
possible, yes

> - but each test may not say that it originated from a "CBC" request
true

> - therefore while gnumed can help me remember I wanted a CBC,
In the current incarnation it doesn't even support that. Here
in Germany doctors just tell their EMR "we are waiting for
*some* test results under such-and-such a number which BTW
corresponds to patient X". They don't enter *what* they
ordered.

> gnumed 
> could not tell me (without a lot of extra work) that the components 
> of a cbc have all come back
While it cannot yet it still could. Liz is doing part of the
legwork for that (though she might not know that ;-)  One
could define a filter or profile CBC including hb, rbc, wbc,
platelets, mcv, mchc, you name it upon loading which missing
results would become apparent (albeit not the reason for
them being missing).

Karsten
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