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

[Richard Terry]

Yeah, well, I'm with you. I'll happily be involved and beta test

Bring it on.

Regards

Richard

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:59 am, Horst Herb wrote:
> 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