Re: Private Re: [Gnumed-devel] gnumed ideas 0.1 and post-0.1

[Karsten Hilbert]

> I must say that in the current version of my hospital's inpatient 
> "EMR" the lack of integration is a nightmare. I truly worry that 
> abnormalities can fall though the cracks. Lab results generated 
> within the hospital are accessed under one tab, whereas results on 
> specimens that had to be sent out (because our hospital does not do 
> all tests) are not codified and so are accessed somewhere else. 
> Radiology and pathology reports (textual) are accessed through yet 
> other tabs. Even if each section *could* filter on 
> reviewed_by_clinician (ours cannot), a doctor would have to first 
> visit every area in order to decide if there was anything still 
> unreviewed. And at patient followup, a reasonable patient request to 
> have reviewed with them the various results received is again a big 
> headache.
This is more of a horrible GUI than (necessarily) a horrible
backend. Even if the backend tracks "unreviewed" and
"incoming" things in several places they can be offered for
review under one tab.

Karsten
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