Hi Simon,
thanks for the feedback. We will add these to the "to do" list. By the
way, are you planning to
work on the code or are you just testing the software?
regards,
elpidio
Simon Andresen wrote:
Hello.
We are a team of master students working on a project tied to an open
source health information system, DHIS (
http://hips.ifi.uio.no:8080/confluence/display/WPM/The+Oslo+Team), in
the HISP ( http://hisp.org <http://hisp.org/> ) network at the
University of Oslo, Norway. The aim of our project is to "explore and
test free and open source software programmes for use in the health
sector, specifically for use in hospitals and medical institutions."
As part of this project we are currently looking at the possibility of
using Care2x for this purpose.
In exploring the system, we picked up two potential problems, but
wanted to check these out with you:
Question 1:
What happens:
We were able to discharge (through death) a patient without having
linked this patient to a DRG. Then we thought, oh, oops, but ok, lets
go back and add a DRG to this patient – but the system would not allow
us, telling us that the patient had died. In an ideal world this
wouldn't be a problem, but in reality you may want to be able to do
this. Have you thought about this?
Possible solution:
Linking a DRG to a patient is a really important aspect of the
information system in hospitals. So, when a discharge occurs, it
should be compulsory to have assigned a DRG. But, sometimes a DRG
cannot be assigned at the time of discharge (a nurse may discharge the
patient and not know what DRG to assign). So, if a patient gets
discharged without having a DRG linked, a flag should be assigned to
that patient, and the administrator or whoever, should be able to call
up these patients (flags) and at a later stage assign a DRG. It may
also happen that an incorrect DRG gets assigned, and that a person
with the rights to do this, should be allowed to go into the system
and change the DRG at a later stage.
Is someone looking into this? Or has it already been addressed?
Question 2:
What happens:
When you create a new department as an administrator a language
variable is marked by a red * as something that is required to be
registered. But you are still able to create a department without
setting it. It is also not clear in the manual what is required
here….Seems to be LD…….. If you later on find out that you forgot to
do this, you are unable to go back and set it through going back and
updating it. Is this working as intended? Are there any ways to work
around / fix this?
Looking forward to hearing the thoughts of the community on this.
Thanks in advance,
DHIS Patient module - The Oslo Team
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