Re: [Gnumed-devel] need-to-know change to backend

[Karsten Hilbert]

Jim,

I like the way you are spelling out the things that have been
inherent in our discussion. This leads to greater clarity (and
is a helpful consultation tool, too - paraphrasing the
patient's communications to establish rapport).

> I am just thinking that during the process of history taking, it is 
> important to keep somewhere on screen the past history (well, the 
> *pertinent* portions of the past history)
Ah, got you.

One way to do that would be with the tree control: open the
portions of the EMR you need in view. It's a bit like a
chronological dump of the EMR that Richard recently posted as
PNG - except that it is active in that one can a) hide
portions or levels of the tree that aren't wanted to be seen
at the moment.

Another possibility would be to have a simple scrollable view
of what plain text (later HTML) Carlos' EMR exporter produces.

> i.e. the problem list which 
> AFAICT we are taking to be a view over issues and episodes, 
> selectable by is_active and clinically_relevant
Yet another (more selective) option would be to display just
the list of problems above the (single) SOAP widget with
problems numbered so in the SOAP widget portions can be
attributed to the pertinent problem (or a new one created by a
shortcut).

> Even if the doctor decides it is too early to commit a link to a 
> suspected cause, awareness of the possibility can guide tests and/or 
> a trial of therapy.
Surely so.

> Also needed to guide the visit are the ability to see (or easily 
> bring into view, this is part of the debate needed) some of the 
> things I recently listed i.e. the scratchpad, any to-do list, 
> medications which may expire or need to be changed, as-yet unactioned 
> abnormal labs as well as (external to the current patient) other 
> high-priority, time-sensitive tasks the doctor must get done.
No question about that. Richard has that all figured out (at
least one version thereof) in his design.

Karsten
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