Hi Darius This looks interesting as a way of grouping encounters and possibly for organising billing. I'm sure it is useful.
In terms of the Shimla system I guess there is a notion of who is currently "visiting" in terms of whether they are in one or other queue. This is to manage the real time flow of patients, whereas the Visit notion you refer to seems more useful in terms of retrospectively looking at what encounters a patient had (useful for billing amongst other things). The "currently in visit" indication goes some way towards marrying the two. It *might* be useful to be able to enhance this to be able to say currently visiting X-Ray though I am not sure if there is a real requirement for that yet. If the system were to move to 1.9 I can see that it might make sense for a visit to be created at registration, rather than an encounter and for a registration/billing clerk to be able to view visits (with encounter summary info) rather than encounters directly - not really 100% sure. Cheers Bob On 4 August 2011 15:01, Darius Jazayeri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi HISP India people, > We've started to implement the idea of "Visits" in OpenMRS, and this will be > released in 1.9 later this year. Since you have a use case that visits could > support, I'm interested to get your feedback about whether what we've > implemented will be useful to you. > As far as the data model, we've added a new Visit class with: > > patient (who it belongs to) > startDatetime, stopDatetime (what date range the visit covers) > location (where it takes place) > visitType (the list of possible visit types is admin-configurable) > indication (an optional concept which can indicate the primary reason or > billing code for the visit) > list of attributes (the admin can configure "Visit Attribute Types" for > whatever they want, e.g. billing code, insurance number, hospital wing, etc) > > In addition encounters may now (optionally) be assigned to belong to one > visit. > Finally there are some minor tweaks to the standard UI, e.g. the patient > dashboard shows a "currently in a visit" message at the top if a patient is > currently in the middle of a not-yet-stopped visit. > Any thoughts about this approach? Things you like? Anything you'd have > expected to see done differently? Do you think you'll be able to use this to > improve your hospital-based implementation? > -Darius > PS- I've cc'd the OpenMRS developers list. Also, please let me know if I > should switch around my HISP India contact list. _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l]
