Re: [Gnumed-devel] emrjounalplugin.py comments further html work

[Horst Herb]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:19, Richard Terry wrote:
> The more and more I play with this type of data entry in my consultations,
> , the more I'm coming around to Malcom Irelands view (and I suspect Horsts
> and David Guest's as well)

My "compromise" is a single text box for entering unstructured text but with 
the provision for tagging text in order to provide some sort of structure and 
searchability 

If you look at the minignumed snapshot in the attachment, you see a composite 
widget for progress notes:
- left upper corner a list of currently active problems, allowing to add 
problems, allowing selection of multiple problems to be tagged for any one 
progress note
- left lower corner a progress note tree allowing to quickly browse through 
past consultations sorted by either problem or date
- right lower corner displaying selected past progress notes
- right upper corner allowing to compose the current free text progress note

Not implemented yet, but planned: rich key macros inserting structured data 
into the database (e.g. BP, temperature, diagnosis), colour coding in thetext 
what has been correctly parsed and saved

This design allows me to work at maximum speed with minimum key strokes. 
Screen update is always instantaneous, no perceivable delay. Initial load 
even with 200 past progress notes still perceived as instant with zero delay 
(local network). Until the end of the progress notes I don't have to use the 
mouse at all, prescription dialog etc. triggered by key macros 
(e.g. !rx[enter] pops up the prescription dialog, !rx amox[enter] pops up the 
prescription dialog with drugs starting with Amox* already preselected)

By default I will always have the previous progress note in view for 
reference, but a single click (sort by problem) will default to the last 
progress note tagged with the current problem (if current problem already 
set)

Horst

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