Re: [Gnumed-devel] Adding new measurement - improving workflow

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:39:14PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

>       EMR > Add / edit > Measurement(s)

...

> 1) it demands a responsible provider for the measurement and
> 2) it demands a problem to be assigned
> 
> I would suggest that
> 
> 1) responsible provider be handled as follows:
> 
> (a) when the user *is* a provider, pre-populate with the user

That is always true (for now, anyways).

Done.

> (b) when the user is *not * a provider
>       when an in-praxis primary was set for this patient
>               --> pre-populate with the in-praxis provider


> 2) is harder to solve because if a patient does not yet
> have any problems, the first visit will likely see the
> clinician opening the Notes widget and beginning to capture
> some information, however a measurement cannot be created
> (saved) without assigning a problem, so this enforces on the
> user the need to first create and name a problem (which gets
> automatically closed) even before they have necessarily
> decided what is going on.

Well, there's no way around that. At least, the episode
phrasewheel in the measurements edit area allows to create
an (unattributed, auto-closed) episode.

Karste
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