James- Burke can explain this more detail, but, if I understand correctly, there is meant to a difference between an encounter role and a (as yet undefined) provider role. I think Burke's example is that a provider could have a provider role of "Surgeon", but they might have an encounter role of "Lead Surgeon" on one encounter and "Assistant Surgeon" on another.
I'm not quite sure how this will work in practice... we are currently working on a Provider Management module which adds the idea of a provider role, which was more important for us. I could see in the future a provider role having a many-to-many mapping to encounter role, indicating what encounter roles a certain provider role can serve as. But, yes, right now I don't believe there is much of a correlation between encounter role and provider, which was confusing to me. You can, however, in Html Form Entry, specify an encounter role via an encounterRole attribute on the encounterProviderAndRole tag to create a widget to select a provider for a specific role. Mark From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Arbaugh Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Providers/Encounter Roles in OpenMRS 1.9 Greetings all! With the introduction of (Multiple) Providers in OpenMRS 1.9, I'm still trying to grasp how it works. Specifically, how do the Encounter Roles relate to the Providers. It seems the Role would be a Provider Attribute. It seems Manage Encounter Roles would be called Manage Provider Roles, and be under the Provider section so you could identify which roles a given provider can play. When I go to Manage Encounters, Add Encounter, and click Add Provider, I am required to choose a Role, and I can then enter the Provider Name. So, I've created an Encounter Role called Surgeon, and selected it, but it will allow me to choose a Provider Name that is not a Surgeon. There is no correlation between the role and the provider. It would be more convenient if you didn't have to click "Add Provider" for the first provider since it's a required field. "At least one provider is required." It would also be convenient if a default role could be automatically selected. Thanks in advance for helping me make sense of these things. Thanks, James ________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe<mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l> from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]
