Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUMed SOAP vs SOAPless progress notes

[Busser, Jim]

On 2011-12-01, at 1:32 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> The waiting list is intended to hold and communicate
> *patients* waiting in the praxis to be seen. That's the
> design goal.

You did previously write

        "Along the way - and drawing
        from first hand use case experience - I noticed that with a
        few minor generalizations (arbitrary zoning, arbitrarily
        settable list position etc) this sort of thing can be used
        for a lot more than just currently waiting patients…

        Since the waiting list isn't intended as a tool for
        clinical-plan-handling-only

                (?? not sure what was meant)

        it can only be by social
        contract at your site that the waiting list zone
        "clinical-todo" is used for such things

        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2009-07/msg00266.html

Thus, I cannot discern whether you did (and do still) picture the Waiting list 
to double as a task manager, or whether you have in mind that GNUmed should 
grow a separate task manager, so …

1) even just among 'patients waiting to be seen' it remains relevant to be able 
to filter the existence of such items -- to clean them up -- for any patient 
who happens to be in focus, as suggested previously per

        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2011-04/msg00217.html

2) and -- as far as the possibility of task management, and whether or not to 
support it 'complicates' the EMR -- I might point out that the 
existing-but-unimplemented table

        lab_requests

is really just capturing an interim state of the plan (the plan to obtain 
measurements). Accordingly, for the EMR to accept to assist with other task 
management, would in principle be nothing more than taking other granular, 
non-lab elements of the plan and similarly storing their interim states, and 
making these states available to be seen by the individuals who may need to 
'advance' these elements to their next 'state'


-- Jim