Re: [Gnumed-devel] widget connecting

[David Guest]

Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> 2) keeping progress notes in simple SOAP structured text input
>    fields (clin_note/clin_history/clin_physical rows)
> 3) per patient ASCII export of progress notes to text files for
>    re-use constrained by date, encounter, episode, health issue
>  
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> Any opinions ?
>  
I would have to see this in practice, Karsten.

Item 3 is a nice extension to item 2. However, my patients typically 
present with, on average, three problems. Often the symptoms and signs 
will overlap from one problem to the next and I find it hard, 
particularly in advance, to determine what data item belongs where.

Currently I have one large SOAP box where I use bars to delimit each 
clinical entitity. This makes moving data around within the box 
relatively easy. I am concerned that multiple input fields for multiple 
problems will make the display and hence the manipulation and more 
significantly the interpretation of that data worse.

I too am interested in others views. Richard?

David