This should be the way to go. We appreciate your efforts Tim in keeping it
running over the years. (frankly I think no-one else is using it on PHP7).
The main branch seems to be dormant for almost a decade, probably the
society should adopt Tim's version when the time comes.
*Wakatabahu!*
*Bw. **Kizito S.M.*
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:20 PM Tim Schofield <tim.schofield1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Alejandro,
>
> Thank you very much for your email, and very helpful comments. I am an
> accountant, and not a clinician, so I have always tried not to
> interfere with the workflow in care2x, unless otherwise instructed by
> clinicians.
>
> If you select "login" from the menu on the left, and login from there
> it shouldn't keep asking for repeated logins. It will time out after
> an interval but off the top if my head I can't remember what that
> interval is.
>
> I am aware that there are bugs in the demo I put online, the code
> didn't run at all on PHP7.x so I have done my best to get something
> running, and I fixed most of the bugs, but I know it is not 100%.
>
> As a humble bean counter I have always found the care2x code complex
> and impenetrable. Our first aim was to simplify the code, so that
> people who aren't professional coders can understand it, take it and
> build upon it for their own needs. We have adopted the process as
> Kizito suggested of taking the existing functionality and mapping it
> exactly in the new code. I realise what we are doing won't be to the
> satisfaction of everyone but they are also free to take the code and
> adapt it as well.
>
> Truth is I hadn't planned to say anything about our plans at this time
> until we had some new code to demonstrate, but when Kizito posted his
> mail I wanted to respond in some fashion.
>
> Your email has been circulated to all my colleagues so that we can
> take your comments into account, and further ideas from a clinician
> such as yourself are most welcome.
>
> Tim
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 at 09:44, Alejandro de Garate via
> Care2002-developers <care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > Sure,
> > Hi Tim
> >
> > It is difficult to test an online program when it asks you for the user
> and
> > password at each step.
> >
> > It is logical that there are different users and passwords for modules
> used
> > by different people. But there are cases where the user is the same and
> the
> > system should accept it; And not to mention if one enters with the
> category
> > of administrator.
> > This is a basic requirement to be able to test the program and make an
> honest
> > return of what one thinks of it. For my es very important !
> >
> >
> > "same old basic problems"
> > -------------------------
> > The main problem is the admision of the pacient.
> >
> > I am been working most of the time at emergency unit. Is quite common
> that
> > unconscious patient can't give you any data, at less he carry an
> identification
> > document (also not too common).
> >
> > So to use care2x in the entrance to emergency, it is necessary to make
> important
> > changes.
> >
> > And then when you can provide the correct identification data, all the
> > procedures done must be able to be added to the clinical history, if the
> patient
> > has previous hospital admissions; Or convert current admission data into
> a
> > new clinical history record.
> >
> > Other data such as blood type are obsolete, do not conform to current
> procedures
> > and should be discarded.
> >
> > As I have previously told you, I work in a public charity hospital, in
> the
> > emergency laboratory.
> >
> > With the current configuration online I can't add a patient and request
> > laboratory analysis.
> >
> > I think a system like Care2x should be as solid rock, and work like a
> charm
> > from the beginning, not as current do.
> >
> > In recent years, with changes in computer systems and decentralization of
> > different sectors, ie: laboratory, radiology, etc (giving more
> independence
> > about its internal computer systems) but always vinculated with HIS, we
> start
> > to use an internal laboratory order number and not the admission number.
> >
> > This was because the patient had blood drawn for analysis, the results
> were sent
> > to the LIS, observed by the clinician, without administratively having
> > completed the admission number.
> >
> > I do not say that this is good, only that it is a way to deal with the
> high
> > demand of patients that we receive in the Emergencies sector and in the
> > laboratory we keep the correct and updated information that can then be
> > completed or linked with other data.
> >
> > We receive a high percentage of undocumented people, people with a
> national
> > identity document but no social security, and foreigners with foreign
> > documentation, and we must treat them properly.
> >
> > In our current scheme at the emergency sector, demographic data, as
> address,
> > phone, postal code, family, etc. get filled later.
> >
> > I can give you more info about that, but now you have an idea of what I
> am
> > talking about.
> >
> > regards
> > ---
> > Alejandro
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi Alejandro, you mention "same old
> > > basic problems" can you expand on
> > > that for me?
> > >
> > > Tim
> > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 at 21:17, Alejandrode Garate via
> > >Care2002-developers <care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Tim
> > > It's been a couple of years since
> > I last used this project.
> > > I am seeing the same old basic
> > problems for which care2x is not used in South America.
> > > I have been working in public
> > hospitals for more than 30 years, so (at least
> > > for this part of the world) I know
> > what I'm talking about.
> > >
> > > Have you a roadmap about future
> > changes or what you think should be changed
> > > in the immediate future ?
> > >
> > > At what stage is the
> > modularization ?
> > > ---
> > > Alejandro
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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