On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:55, Matt Evans wrote: > Now, the patient phones up with some additional information which I wish to > add to the assessment. I open it up to add that info. On a different page > of the document however the 'reasons not fit' box pulls through not the last > value (null or "") but the last non-null or "" value i.e. pneumonia. When > the document is signed the author has unwittingly signed the fact that the > patient is unfit for surgery as that is the value in that field now.
That is incredible!!! I really like their idea of a fix! <sarcasm> The actual fix of ensuring a null (or a space in it's place if the system won't allow null fields) is written should be easy enough to do. I think if I were in charge of the project I would have to insist they fix this. If nothing else a warning should pop up that states other fields have changed on non-viewed pages. If for some reason (poor design?) they can't fix it. Then the feature of pulling through the data should be disabled completely and not touted as an application feature. I'm not sure what kind of opinions you are looking for but I would consider this unacceptable for any business application much less in a case where lives could be in jeopardy. I fear that now you are going to become embroiled in a politically charged situation now. Good Luck, -- Tim Cook, President, Open Paradigms, LLC Organizing Chair, AMIA Open Source Working Group Public Key at: http://www.openparadigms.com/timcook_publickey.asc Key fingerprint = C7BB 675B BDCA B87D 83F0 A002 BBDC C7B8 9ACD B673 - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
