Re: [Gnumed-devel] clinician input wanted: patient overview widget

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 09:25:18AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> Liz is not the first to point out the all too common failures in hospital 
> discharge communication.
> 
> To answer Rogerio's question,
> 
> - I agree with Karsten's plan re a plug-in
> - differences:
> 
> 1) a referral letter has a context that includes making a request
> 2) referral letter may choose, on a per-patient basis, to customize the 
> content depending on what t he consultant would be interested to see (or what 
> is personal awhen not relevant to a request)

I fully agree.

> 3) overview would presumably behave consistently across patients, depending 
> only on what is available in their record

It would behave consistently. However, it might display
somewhat different things depending on the actual patient.

> 4) overview (being electronic) may permit to "jump" into another section of 
> GNUmed

Most definitely.

Karsten
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