[Gnumed-devel] Medications plug-in, refactored

[Busser, Jim]

Medication management is complex and I support for us to be both 
forward-thinking and to evolve what GNUmed can do in planned stages.

I'd like to make several points, on which I will elaborate in next postings …


1. Karsten's first-level intent was to create a plug-in which allowed to input 
and list currently-taken substances, a "Current Medication List"

It is for these reasons that among the original ways to update the list, in 
order to correctly reflect what was current, was to simply delete the 
medication, and not bother to input a "date discontinued", even if such ability 
had, in the first instance, been available (which I cannot remember).

As soon as "Discontinued" and "Inactive" were made available, GNUmed became a 
"Medication List" with the *added sophistication* to show only current 
medications.

Accordingly, if people do not mind, I would like us to stop calling the plug-in 
a

        "Current Medication List" manager

since it is, at the very least, now a "Medication List" manager. That is what 
my next post informs.


2. As soon as "Started…" and "Duration" was added, this made the

        "Medication List" manager

 something more, but we did not yet resolve the competing purposes and 
ambiguities that arise. This is what my 2nd next post will inform and needs 
more sorting out …

-- Jim