Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed status 0.9.6 going forward

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 01:41:52AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> > when a patient would attend a laboratory (as an outpatient) that is part of 
> > a hospital. Would the lab be a branch of a "hospital" or would it be a 
> > branch of a conceptual but virtual "Hospital laboratories" ?
> 
> Or the lab could exist both
> 
>       as a branch of the hospital
> 
> and at the same time
> 
>       as a medical diagnostic lab
> 
> which would need entries in dem.org
> 
>       Hospital ABC (category = Hospital)
>       Hospital ABC Lab (type = Medical diagnostic laboratory)
> 
> and in dem.org_unit
> 
>       Hospital ABC Lab (fk to Hospital ABC)
> 
> 
> The result would be that the clinician could, among orgs:
> 
> - browse e.g. hospitals and, on selecting a particular hospital, bring up a 
> listing of that hospital's known departments or
> 
> - browse e.g. labs and directly select a lab of interest (despite that it 
> happens separately to be a hospital lab)
> 
> Phone numbers (lnk_identity2comm) would need to be separately entered.

That's right.

Karsten
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