We are looking for a field at the encounter time - we wanted to create a massive entry space using a custom form, so the doctor/nurse can write whatever she/he wants, and limit structured information to 5-8 fields using option sets.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Marko and Rodolfo, > > We have a comment field available for the programinstance object. This is > for general comments about a person in a program, a bit like a whiteboard > that you can always see on top of the data entry form in Person Dashboard. > This field is also limited to 255 characters, but we can extend it. We have > a patientcomment object that is referenced in programinstance. > > Would this meet your needs or you need to have a comment per program stage > instance (encounter/visit)? > > I guess we could link to a patientcomment from programstageinstance as > well, and this way make comments available per stage instance? > > Ola > -------- > > ---------------------------------- > Ola Hodne Titlestad (Mr) > HISP > Department of Informatics > University of Oslo > > Mobile: +47 48069736 > Home address: Eftasåsen 68, 0687 Oslo, Norway. Googlemaps > link<https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Eftas%C3%A5sen+68,+0687+Oslo,+Norge&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=59.893855,10.785116&sspn=0.222842,0.585709&oq=eftas%C3%A5sen+68,+0687+Oslo,+&t=h&hnear=Eftas%C3%A5sen+68,+%C3%98stensj%C3%B8,+0687+Oslo,+Norway&z=16> > > > On 29 April 2013 21:02, Rodolfo Melia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi - just to echo on Marko's comment: PSI is also considering the use of >> a large, free text field, for doctor/ nurse to write free text observations >> that we don't need to quantify, but we want to capture, so DHIS can work as >> a light electronic health record. We will try Knut's suggestion on the mean >> time. >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Lars Helge Øverland <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Hi Marko, >>> >>> we could consider it - the only problem is that we have chosen the >>> approach of using one column for all types of values. Most values are short >>> numbers and using text as column type over varchar with fixed length >>> implies a performance penalty. I am not sure how significant that overhead >>> is with latest versions of postgresql/mysql. We could check it out. I guess >>> you could do like Knut suggests for now and change the column type manually. >>> >>> cheers >>> >>> Lars >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Marko David Garcia < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi friends, in the table patientdatavalue the field value is >>>> varchar(255). >>>> >>>> Is possible change this field to a bigger type? >>>> >>>> We need insert long descriptions in this field. >>>> >>>> Thank you very much. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Cordialmente, >>>> >>>> >>>> *Ing. Marko David Garcia M. >>>> * >>>> *Área de Sistemas integrados de Información >>>> Secretaría de Salud Departamental del Cauca >>>> >>>> * >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Rodolfo Meliá* >> *Principal* >> [email protected] >> www.knowming.com >> +1 708 872 7636 >> +44 777 576 4090 >> Skype: rod.melia >> Twitter: @RodolfoMelia <https://twitter.com/RodolfoMelia> >> >> Note: Please note my new email address, which I will be using for PSI >> related work: [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > -- *Rodolfo Meliá* *Principal* [email protected] www.knowming.com +1 708 872 7636 +44 777 576 4090 Skype: rod.melia Twitter: @RodolfoMelia <https://twitter.com/RodolfoMelia> Note: Please note my new email address, which I will be using for PSI related work: [email protected]
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