Re: [Gnumed-devel] clinician input wanted: how to implement "coding"

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 08:28:16AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> I am foreseeing different implications for diagnostic vs
> therapeutic codes. Once a patient with hemochromatosis has
> been diagnosed, that diagnostic code remains applicable at
> every subsequent encounter. However, the patient does not
> get a phlebotomy at every encounter. A user might thusly
> input
> 
> What does this mean for the handling of the codes? Does it mean that
> 
> - when inputted into the Notes editor, the codes are associated with
>       - the narrative rows for the encounter, and/or
>       - the episode

The codes entered into the phrasehweel for the SOAP rows are
associated with those SOAP rows.

> - but that in order to associate these same codes to a health issue, the code 
> records replicated, using an fk to the health issue?

If a code is desired to be attached to a health issue it
needs to get attached to a health issue, say, in the health
issue edit area.

> - and once the codes have been associated to a health issue, would opening 
> the health issue into a notelet pre-populate the notelet with the 
> already-known codes?

No.

Karsten
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