Roel De Meester wrote:
Roel in about 2 weeks we will be making available a new nursing admission chart form. I think you will find it useful. Let me know if you want me to send you some sample screen shots.I follow you , for doing research you should always collect as much data as possible and never throw away 'trivial' data in advance. But in case of HIV Therapy followup, the 10 institutes/centres that i know (and for which i would like to develop an ARV module) do not hospitalize the HIV infected people. The aim of the institutes is to follow up the patients, give them appropriate therapy and keep them from getting AIDS. Besides that they do clinical studies, collect data, do research etc... Mind.. I'm not a doctor. I'm a humble software developer who happens to know some people in these institutes and i helped them to setup a simple database from which they can query some data. I'd like to help them out by merging there current way of working into Care2x to take benefits from both.
matthew wrote:
Roel
Remember this if you get too focused you will loose capibilities you will need a future period of time. Especially when you start tracking true stastices related to patient care.
For instance it may seem superfical to track patient beds, equipment, but when you have to start looking for the cause of a VRE or MRSA out break in your aids patients you will ned this data because this equipment can become the means of spreading the desease from patient to patient.
You should collect the data and trim how you present the data to the end user, but you should always collect the data inorder to leave your research options open.
Matt Roel De Meester wrote:
I've been thinking for weeks/months about converting Care2x into an EMR directed at clinics and medical centres doing longterm studies on HIV/AIDS patient. Last month a major report was released by Rhino.org.. [ *http://tinyurl.com/5kfaz* ] Main conclusions about Care2x to support ART
Advantages: It runs on a modern web thin client web server platform and is all open source software. It will run on any hardware platform. It is scalable and can run large enterprises. Open source will let you maintain and modify the software to meet your needs.
Disadvantages: This is a large software package with many functions that may not be necessary in smaller hospitals and may interfere with effective training and use. Although this software can be used for outpatient EMR, it is not designed for that use. The extra features have the potential to cause confusion when they are not used. This software will require modification to support ART.
The main issue is that Care2x is development to process almost all information in a large scale clinic, while for ART the most important things are 1. Only Out Patients. 2. Main users are a)Administration[check-in], b)(Social)Nurses, c)Doctors, d)Bio-statisticians
Will the Care2x PM solve these issues? What is the current status of this 'branch'? Where are we now on the timescale of http://www.care2x.org/img/timetable-pm1k.png Who are the main developers for this 'branch'?
Is any-one interested in helping me to create the ART module?
For your information: There were Some other Care2002 discussions involving the use of Care2x in AIDS -related situations [ *http://tinyurl.com/6v7l3 , **http://tinyurl.com/5atcc** ].
* Greetings Roel De Meester
Matt
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