I've been looking at the new Provider model in 1.9, and I was wondering if thought has been put into modeling provider types (Cardiologist, PCP) and specific provider services, and how to record that a provider provided a specific service to a patient. Do we have a vision as to how we may want to model this going forward?
The reason I'm asking is that I'm currently working on determining how PIH wants to model Community Health Workers within our system, and I'm considering how they may fall into a more generic provider structure. We want to be able to handle various types of CHWs (Accompagnateurs, Pallative care workers, Community Health Nurses) that provide various services (HIV accompaniment, end-of-life care, etc) that we'd like to be able to model, and then we'd like to be able to track what services are being provided to what patients. Additionally, we need to track the dates over which a CHW provided such a service, ie: "Accompagnateur A provided HIV accompaniment to Patient B from 1/2/2010 to 3/4/2011" At first, it seems like Relationships would be the way to model this kind of interaction, since a relationship defines a relationship between two people, and (as of 1.9) can have a start date and an end date. However, it doesn't quite seem to be the right way to do this, primarily because a relationship is a Person-to-Person relationship, when what we are modeling is a Provider-to-Patient relationship. It seems like this is an archetypical relationship in an EMR that it may make sense to model in a different manner than general relationships. Take care, Mark _________________________________________ 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]
