Re: GUI (was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Results tracking)

[J Busser]

At 3:03 PM +0100 3/6/05, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>  > the emr at work, tracking of meds is just a list of current recorded
> >  medications,
> >  and we do simple edit, delete, create on the list, and all the
> >  medication actions
> >  are recorded as auto-generated text in the narrative, ( probably not as
> >  action objects , but I'm not sure) . Is this all right for Karsten or
> >  Jim  ?
> Alright with me for the first version. However, the first
> version for medication tracking certainly isn't 0.1 either.

I would view any medication functionality in 0.1 as a bonus because 
the anticoagulation clinic could get by without them in the first 
iteration. Any such functionality could however make gnumed 
attractive to another project in British Columbia about which I may 
write some more in the next week.

Also there is in BC a project looking at the feasibility of improving 
the information value of our medicare's prescription payment system 
which is accessible online to doctors and pharmacists but provides 
nothing but a chronologic display of filled prescriptions. So if a 
patient gets methadone dispensed daily they will have 420 items (the 
system retains 14 months' worth) and those will drown the ability to 
pick out other items to see what the patient got from a walk-in 
clinic "a few weeks" ago.

I am writing the use case for an improved UI to that system over on 
my Sandbox and mention in case it could usefully inform any of 
gnumed's medication functionality:

http://salaam.homeunix.com/twiki/bin/view/Sandbox/JamesBusserSandbox