[Gnumed-devel] How should / shall an EMR handle group visits?

[Jim Busser]

"Group visits" are a type of encounter in which more than one patient (not from 
the same family) agrees to be seen by the doctor many-to-on (instead of one on 
one), for purposes which may include:

- education about a particular disease

- education about a treatment (e.g. surgery) that has been booked or which is 
available

- getting questions answered; I suppose the questions may, in some cases, 
express what has been going on with their own individual cases, where the 
patients choose to make this disclosure to the rest of the group.

Does anyone have experience with these kinds of visits, and therefore know (and 
be able to advise) what an EMR might need to capture them?

Encounter of type 'group visit' ?

Each patient record receives a copy of a summary of the education that was 
provided?

I suppose that where a patient asks a question whose answer is discussed among 
the group of patients (but has direct implications for a change being warranted 
to the individual patient's care) this kind of thing begs it own post-encounter 
documentation outside of the group visit encounter?

-- Jim