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[Gnumed-devel] Idea for Demographics "Web of care" tab
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Jim Busser |
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[Gnumed-devel] Idea for Demographics "Web of care" tab |
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Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:52:47 -0700 |
The kinds of things not yet easily tracked in GNUmed include
- the organizations at which a patient may get care
pharmacies
path labs
other orgs / facilities
- the providers / clinicians from whom the patients may get careā¦
doctors (general physicians)
specialists
subspecialists
non-doctors e.g.
physiotherapists
psychologists
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I was thinking that it might be a helpful design to create a Web of care tab and
- move (within Demographics)
in-praxis primary --> Web of care
- add (within Web of care)
additional in-praxis support
- e.g. to designate an absence-covering doctor
(this would be global, across the praxis
and so perhaps columns in the staff table)
org support
provider support
In the sketch below, not all associated records would be shown in every case.
If a user clicked Organization then only those records which were organizations
would show, and the most helpful columns to display would be the
org name
org branch name
address
comment
whereas a click on Disciplines or Names would list the same content (just
providers) but the click would determine the column sequence and the sort
order. Among providers, it is possible that the patient
- continues to see them ("Active")
--> maybe needing to be communicated-with
- or, no longer sees them ("Inactive")
- or -- if needing a re-assessment --
--> would better, in cases of past "Conflict", see a new
provider
whichever "kind" of row that it is, I would suggest that
1) a double-click would display the full available reference information
e.g. phone numbers
2) privacy considerations should cause regular staff Demographics to be
filtered so as to not display is_confidential items for example sexual or
mental health relationships
We already have in the schema
dem
a set of "org" tables but we maybe need in schema "ref" a "provider" or
"providers" table ? Simplest would be a table whose records were
non-normalized, for example permitting the doctor to have a row per address
(where they maintained more than one office location). A more-normalized design
might better allow the providers table to link to
ref.disciplines
which might allow each provider to be linked to more than one skill area, for
example among Cardiologists some may specialize in Congenital heart disease,
others in Dysrhythmias and among General surgeons, some (but not all) may do
laparoscopic adrenalectomy.
I agree that we would not normally copy these individuals into
identity
names
unless we would be wanting to add information not contained in the reference
data (for example, the provider's cel phone number, if trusted to us)
-- Jim
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