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 > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://openmrs-mailing-list-archives.1560443.n2.nabble.com/Visits-in-OpenMRS-1-9-tp6652893p6669234.html > Sent from the Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _________________________________________ > > 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] > _________________________________________ 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]

