Hi Tim, your reply is correct in general terms. I like to add a detailed info.
To Roel, The current approach in Care2x is to find (or register) the person first, then once you have the final registration data on the page, you will see the additional functions on the right submenu column. There you will find the "Appointments" submenu item. Click on it, and you will see the previous and/or current appointment schedules. If you want to schedule a new appointment, just click on the "Schedule new appointment" link shown at the lower part of the page. On the input page, you can enter the name of the doctor to assign to the patient. This entry is currently text based though and has no direct link to the internal personnel module (so no strict validation is possible for the moment). The "Appointments" item on the left main menu frame leads to the day's list of appointments only. You cannot add an appointment starting from this point. However, you can edit a listed appointment by clicking on the person's name. But you can list the appointments assigned to a particular doctor by entering the doctor's name or keywords and hitting the "Go" button. By the way, this appointment system is currently designed only for appointment scheduling for admittance to the hospital. It will not work as intrahospital nor inter-department scheduler. Although it seems to work for that purpose because you can schedule several appointments with different departments in the same day, you will however be prompted that the patient is already admitted once you click on the "admit" button of another schedule. An intrahospital scheduler is still in the consideration phase. Or you can start designing and coding your own. One reason why I did not give it a high priority before is that we use the "test/consultation request system" (the germans call it "Konsilsystem" ) in our hospital (although it is purely paper and pen system). I copied that manual concept and implemented it as computer supported version in CAre2x. You see this in Care2x in the form of "test/consultation request forms". Creating and sending a request is equivalent to scheduing an intrahospital appointment, while processing the pending requests is equivalent to processing the appointments. Several variations can be done to create an intrahospital appointment scheduler: a) Enhance the current "test/consultation request system" to automatically generate an appointment entry in a specific list. b) Create a new scheduler system which can be used independently from the test request forms. Let us see what we will get in the coming releases. This is of course highly dependent on the contributions of the developers. All will get what all contribute. Thanks Elpidio On Wednesday 26 May 2004 01:51, Tim S wrote: > Hi Roel; > > > As I understand PM is just a scaled down version of HIS. No changes in > usage have been done as yet. Although some are planned. > > > As such, a patient at present is not assigned to a specific doctor only. > But if add an appointment, if I remember correctly, you can add to a doctor > who is working at that time. And of course, you can view the patient > interactions to see which doctors have seen this patient. > > > I do not know if this answers your questions. Maybe someone else would > like to add a more detailed explanation? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149&alloc_id�66&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
