Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Gnumed-devel Digest, Vol 69, Issue 17

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:13:30PM -0300, Rogerio Luz wrote:

> - the hierarchy of Health issue / encounter / episode is rather confusing
> for me.

Well, the easy steps are:

1) ignore health issues
2) encounter is the consultation
3) episodes are the illnesses you work on during consultations

That's it.

If you want to get a deeper understanding:

        http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/BasicEmrConcept

Health issues are things like "Diabetes type II" (the
patient always has it) while episodes are things like
"common cold" (the patient only has it for a while).

Tell me your speciality and I will give you an appropriate
example.

Karsten
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