Hi Janet,

We'd love to get your input into what API calls you'd want to be able to
make.

Can you take a look at what's currently there for getVisits, and comment?
http://svn.openmrs.org/openmrs/trunk/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/api/VisitService.java

-Darius

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, jriley <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been looking forward to this feature.  We need Visits to group
> together
> the multiple encounters and labs a patient might have for one hospital
> visit.
>
> Some of the ways it will be important:
> * for providers - so they can quickly see what's going on during a visit,
> and find the labs associated with it
> * for registration staff - it'll make it easier to see which patient charts
> should have come back for data entry
> * for Ministry of Health reporting -  how many patient visits occurred
> within a month, which can be tricky to do with encounters; how long  they
> lasted; etc. etc.
>
> The data model will support all these uses.
>
> I'm delighted by the visit attributes and types.  Is it Christmas?  That
> will be a handy way to flag things. I'm thinking of cases  like a visit
> included surgery or admission, or that a visit shouldn't be counted, like
> for blood donation.
>
> You haven't mentioned the Visit Service API yet.  I expect to make a lot of
> queries for "show me all the visits in progress (started and not stopped)"
> -
> e.g. for the registration staff to see whose charts are out;  show me all
> the encounters of type X in a visit that's in progress  - e.g. show me
> everyone in the ICU today;  and "show me the most recent visit and
> associated encounter list for Patient X"  - e.g. I'm looking at Patient X's
> dashboard  to treat them.
>
> Thanks for the update. I look forward to helping test.
>
> Regards-
>
> Janet Riley
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