On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:14:12PM -0800, James Busser wrote: > It occurs to me that some reports, even though we might receive them as a > single file (as a multi-page TIFF or as a PDF), may themselves already > contain a variety of different content for example if a patient being > discharged from hospital is getting a new gp (or is being newly referred) > the discharge/referral package may contain a bundle of > > Admission Hx Px > Consultations > Imaging (Xray etc) results > Lab results > Discharge summary > > Maybe 5-20 pages. I would consider this a package of information prepared by a provider not *intended* to be valued in separation except for reference after initial consumption.
> If it existed as a single source file, it would be at the discretion of the > end-users whether to bother to split this into multiple parts, which GNUmed > does not presently build in the tools with which to do this. The user would > have to split it outside of GNUmed. Yes. However, GNUmed offers one little tool: when you drag a folder onto the parts list it'll dive into that folder and accept each file as a part (depth of one level). > It may also be correct to consider any GNUmed "Document" to be a "package" > or "bundle" of information that may contain more than one part and even > within a single part may contain more than one type of content. Yes, that's my view. Especially the concept of more than one type of content is intentional. > PS on the Import document screen, for the field label "Associated episode:" > can we say > > "Associate to episode:" Done. > and since "Associated episode:" and "Type:" are required, should they be > colored red as in the New patient creation widget? Done. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
