[Gnumed-devel] Measurements - lessons from other EMRs - easily finding what we want to see

[Busser, Jim]

It appears that most EMRs provide

- a grid viewer, and
- some other viewer which lists test that the patient has had

and a common theme among doctors seems to be

1) if patient Jane Doe with joint pains comes into the office and demands that 
she have an Antinuclear Antibody, Homocysteine Level, Factor V Leiden and 
Complement C3 test done, how do we check if these tests have been done already, 
other than manually scanning through all the individual labs in the database

--> some of this GNUmed can achieve with "Panels"
--> I only wonder whether we can also have it that

        - Spotlight can in future accept to work on either a profile or a 
*single* lab test (or meta type)
        - Meta-types, profiles and individual lab tests should perhaps not be 
allowed to have the same name?


2) how to graph results across a meta type including across a change of lab 
units etc

--> GNUmed future

-- Jim

PS -- Oscar appears to have built their original tables to exactly import lab 
results (as supplied by the labs) which maybe explains why they later added 
measurements as a separate concept and to bridge the two have invented 
'mapping' which, unless I understand it, may borrow some of the same 'tags' as 
they use to populate their forms (in GNUmed, the analogy would be placeholders)

        
http://www.oscarmanual.org/oscar_emr_12/clinical-functions/e-forms/eform-magic

 to auto-copy lab results of interest from their lab results tables to their 
Measurements table.