Re: [Gnumed-devel] Matching was Re: Mirth (2 of 3): HL7 import for the GNUmed project - test source message

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:58:11PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> > ah.. are you saying that you would, given that the proposed
> > fk_lab_request would preserve the OBR-OBX hierarchy (in
> > clin.test_result + clin.lab_request), that you would want to then
> > begin changing the encounter with which the lab_request and/or
> > test_result was associated?  perhaps move the test_results to
> > somewhere more appropriate?
> 
> > if so, that kinda breaks what's been discussed already about keeping
> > clin.lab_requests + clin.test_results associated with "automated lab
> > import" encounter/episode types!

> it only breaks what might have been the permanence of the
> association. I should point out that, all along, GNUmed has
> figured on the encounter as serving an able-to-be-altered
> grouping function

Yep, that's right.

Karsten
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