On Tuesday 19 September 2006 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our focus has been on the hospital setting where many differnt Departments > use many different forms. Once a user defines a form then it is held in a > forms repository and can be changed at any time so the repository is a > Forms Version Control System. When a clinician populates a form with > patient data then the data and form version is stored together (in XML). > Anyone who wishes to do a retreival of the patient story sees all the > forms filled out for that patient and chooses whichever ones they want- so > this is a mimic of the paper system -of course any user could redesign > their paper form into a web presentation if they want to but that assumes > they are prepared to give up their current data layout. So part of our > consideration is about what creates the least disruption to current paper > systems and thereby easing migration from paper to screen. Importantly > each "department' can design their own "information system" but everyone > can "see" everyone else's data on the original forms used to collect the > data.
Andrew Ho, a yank psychiatrist, has developed such a system some 5-6 years ago. He called it "OiO" (Open Infastructure for Outcomes, http://www.txoutcome.org/ ). It is still in use and works very well especially for research purposes. He is a very cooperative fellow full of excellent ideas and it is worthwhile learning from his past mistakes when one goes about implementing something similar Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
