Re: [Gnumed-devel] demographics editor

[J Busser]

At 7:37 PM +1000 9/13/04, Richard Terry wrote:
> Having multiple clients open with multiple patients is asking for trouble.

I have all along been wondering if a good design could, with 
exceptions*, involve one client but smartly supporting this issue of 
jumping back and forth between patients.

While working on Patient X, when having to immediately deal with an 
interruption concerning Patient Y, you hate to lose your placeholder 
for X while fetching Y. So I think it could be invaluable to have an 
easily accessible clickable list, listing in reverse order the 
patients last accessed by yourself and even remembering which tab you 
were in. Maybe it would not even be necessary to re-access the server 
for the original read. If a problem for other patients to see this 
list, it could be hidden but easily toggled into view. I had further 
detailed thoughts on this which I can offer.

* the exceptions would be any special purpose clients, which is 
different than multiple instances of the SAME client. I could 
understand if Doctor A has to step out for 3 or 4 minutes and wants 
to let resident B access the computer, Doctor A would hopefully 
"park" or "lock" his instance which might slide down into an OS 
toolbar somewhere, and resident B could then load their own instance.