Would you be able to store these as the encounterrole for that CHW for each encounter?
Ben On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Mark Goodrich <[email protected]> wrote: > 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**** > ------------------------------ > Click here to > unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l>from > OpenMRS Developers' mailing 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]
