[Health-dev] Patient allergy module for GNU Health?

[address@hidden]

Dear GNU Health team

I would like to suggest the creation of a new "patient 
allergy" module for GNU Health. This would allow the recording of a patient's 
drug and non-drug allergies and intolerances (advese reactions).

If the 
information in the module was coded (SNOMED CT) then it might be possible to 
include decision support functionality so that if a patient was recorded as 
allegic to penicillin and a penicillin type drug was prescribed then a pop-up 
warning would appear to alert the doctor/prescriber about the possible hazard.


I don't think this would be difficult to do from a programming perspective and 
it would be a useful patient safety feature for GNU Health to have.

Regards


Andrew