[Gnumed-devel] Encounter update / creation and moving between patients

[Busser, Jim]

GNUmed 1.3.4

I set focus on an existing patient and, with the patient in focus, created and 
attached a document.  That was my last activity for the day yesterday, and I 
left the GNUmed client running.

Today, I started creating a new patient. I inputted all required information 
into the new patient creation widget, and was presented with a prompt to update 
the encounter information.

After I updated and saved the encounter information (type, purpose), I realized 
that what I had done was to alter the information for the encounter that 
related to *yesterday's* patient, not the new patient whose encounter details I 
was thinking that I was editing.

Is it agreed that on this question of the patient who is already in focus, and 
whom we are about to *leave*, it is better to prompt to complete the 
in-focus-encounter before the user's brain starts engaging any data relating to 
the new patient?

My suggestion is that when the user invokes any of

        Patient menu > Search
        
        Patient > Register person

        Patient > Load external

        perhaps clicking in the combined patient name / search box

the encounter updating window on the patient that is about the be *departed* 
before any new GUI elements that may pertain to the "next" patient  (even the 
name search) are presented to the user?

Maybe also the labelling of the edit encounter box can also be improved.. but I 
have to wait til I am next presented it before I can make any suggestion ...

-- Jim