[Gnumed-devel] Progress notes, summaries, episode names and the Assessment of Encounters (AOEs)

[James Busser]

I am working on a post to tie these together but in preparation need  
to ask

        how is the input of the AOE prompted?

1) I note that EMR > Start new encounter seems to close any  
opportunity for the entry of an AOE for the encounter just ended.  
Should there should be a prompt to input the AOE for the ending  
encounter?

2) I cannot invoke a prompt to be able to input an AOE from inside a  
patient. It seems I am only prompted if there were unsaved progress  
notes *and* I attempt to search a different patient. When the  
progress notes had already been saved (with the prompt for an Episode  
name, if a new one had been created) there is no prompt to provide an  
AOE.

Possibly an AOE may only otherwise be prompted after returning to a  
patient *after* the pre-defined expiry of the encounter??

I am not sure how well (except if I should first have to re-review  
the chart) I could put in an AOE after having in the meantime engaged  
one or multiple other patients' issues  (and maybe not being prompted  
at all until the next visit with a patient) questions how easily can  
a suitable

After Saving a progress note, I appreciate that the visit may not yet  
be over, because the patient could ask me something else. However if  
the patient exists the door and 99/100 times do not come immediately  
back I would want to put in the AOE now.

How about, in the Progress Note editor, a button to enable ending/ 
closing the encounter and prompting input of the AOE?