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[flotsamjetsom]

> For example, at a recent health informatics seminar in
> Melbourne, a major teaching hospital implementing a clinical information
> system (and also a lead agency for the Victorian HealthSMART
> all-of-State clinical system) noted that clinicians were entering
> clinical problems / diagnoses into the CIS system in free text because
> of lack of any standard concerning clinical coding (SNOMED-CT; etc).
> Similar problems existed with allergies and adverse reactions while drug
> coding (and interaction checking) used a proprietary system.


That scintella emr editor looks appropriate here.
(if eclipse  can make a java programmer use better practices, perhaps a 
emr text editor  for clinicians ?
 free text with hidden tags  for coding links
)

non-hospital systems too;

I tend to enter everything free text, as the main purpose seems to be to 
record for self or others to
read or recall,  and secondarily, for medicolegal purposes , which 
someone is going to read; 

and only use *gui features* when I need
the computer to produce  a form. ( requests, referrals, prescriptions) 
for the purpose of giving to the patient,

or when browsing ( results,  documents, progress notes - one system I 
use divides this into list items
rather than a scrollable, readonly text page; the latter  I find easier 
to use  ).

What about making an open-office monitored document  application, so people
can enter an encounter on a word processor, except there is a  program 
monitoring
the entry , making suggestions for coding, and responding to recognized 
text by build
an action plan tree on another area , which the user can later change or 
commit, or invoke.
You could possibly make it C++ to python, or java to python , or maybe 
soon they'll
wrap their api in python.

BTW , the main reason for usiing java is laziness ( short-term ) ; the 
ide I used lets you search
for callers of a method, lookup the type heirarchy for overloaded  
methods or concrete methods of abstract
methods,  select the best matching import for module.method names that 
are used ;
it just saves time typing commands for jumping around in files, and  
between files.
Maybe mc  does this , does it? I'm using vi for python, and I like the 
/  search command a lot, although
sometimes i'd like to do /  and then see the search results with the 
some information as to where it is found ,
instead of pressing /, / , /  looking for the particular occurence of 
the phrase I actually want.


 what's the best editor for python
if you want search facilities ( e.g. recursive grep ) and the ability to 
point and click and jump
to file and file position from grepped results ?


Any tips appreciated , wrt to using tools to edit python code.