So, you're trying to use obs to create a list of recommended vaccinations for a child?
-Burke On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Andrew Kanter <andy_kan...@yahoo.com>wrote: > So to add on to what Ben has described... > > What we are looking for is something like the the active problem list > functionality to carry the current recommendations for immunizations. Right > now we are stuck in having to save this information as OBS. To do this, we > either append an OBS to a current encounter with the recommendation in a > concept, or we create a new encounter to hold the OBS. The issue is that we > expect to run the recommendation algorithm nightly or weekly. This would > create a ton of unwanted encounters if each time we created a new encounter > from the procedure. If we update the OBS for an existing encounter then we > have the issue of the encounter date either not matching the OBS date, or > by changing the encounter we break a rule of EHRs but essentially deleting > the old encounter and creating a new one with the current information. > > The last quirk has to do with the xforms module and the past medical > history display. If we decide to just keep appending the OBS to an existing > (older) encounter... will the obs display in reverse chronological order in > ODK display or will it look only at the encounter date (not the obs > datetime) and display all the OBS for that encounter on the first page (not > workable). > > Thanks for the advice! > Andy (and Ben) > > *-------------------- > Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH > > - Director of Health Information Systems/Medical Informatics* > *Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University* > *- Asst. Prof. of Clinical Biomedical Informatics and Clinical > Epidemiology* > *Columbia University* > > Email: andrew.kan...@dbmi.columbia.edu > Mobile: +1 (646) 469-2421 > Office: +1 (212) 305-4842 > Skype: akanter-ippnw > Yahoo: andy_kanter > > ------------------------------ > *From:* benjamin rukundo <ben.ruku...@yahoo.fr> > *To:* openmrs-deve...@listserv.iupui.edu > *Sent:* Friday, April 27, 2012 4:14 PM > *Subject:* [OPENMRS-DEV] what could be the best scenario for saving > patient cohors observation ? > > Hi all, > > I'm working on the immunization module, and the module provides > immunization recommendation for patients, currently we have expanded the > immunization recommendation to be accessible on mobile phone so the > immunization recommendations are saved as text data type in obs table and > these immunization recommendations are downloaded from a mobile phone to be > viewed. The idea is to save the immunization recommendation for a cohort of > patient eg children < 5 years old. > > instead of saving new encounter for each audit date on a daily or weekly > basis to get the latest immunization recommendations which will create many > encounters for one patient > 2 options are proposed > > Option 1) we create an "immunization recommendation" encounter if not > already there. If one exists, we append a new obs with the date of the > audit. > as new audits are done, we simply append new OBS to the same old encounter > but save (obs_datetime) with the audit date as the OBS date > > Option 2) we do the same as option 1 but change the encounter date to the > current audit date. > > On the phone, we should only view OBS information (the historical > information) for a given concept not sure if this sorts by OBS datetime or > encounter date time ? > > Thanks > > > Benjamin RUKUNDO > EMR Programmer > MVP-Rwanda > ------------------------------ > Click here to > unsubscribe<lists...@listserv.iupui.edu?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l>from > OpenMRS Developers' mailing list > > > ------------------------------ > Click here to > unsubscribe<lists...@listserv.iupui.edu?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l>from > OpenMRS Developers' mailing list > _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:lists...@listserv.iupui.edu?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l]
