Hi,
We are investigating the possibility of using GNU Health in a
children specific health center in Iran. This center treats
newborns from other hospitals too. It seems that we cannot adopt
GNU Health in its current form to the needs of this center. It
seems that we really need to register a newborn as a patient in
the system, because newborns in this hospital are really
"patients", but they also should have newborn specific
information (e.g. the APGAR score) so we need both patient and
newborn functionality. Our conclusion is that a newborn should
actually be registered as a patient in the system. It has an
added benefit that we can track the full history of a person,
including its newborn info. Also, "patient" module can decide
about the relevant info for a specific patient based on his/her
age: e.g. if (s)he is a newborn, newborn sheets should be
included. It might recognize other groups as well (newborn,
child, adult, elderly).
We are probably going to implement such functionality, but
before that we'd like to know about your opinions about such a
change, and if there is anything wrong with such an
implementation.
Regards,
Hedayat