Horst Herb wrote:
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> And not to most GPs either..., anyway: this workaround might work in some >
>instances for drugs, but it fails for patient's names. The two examples "drugs" > and
>"names" were just chosen because they are quite typical for my daily practice, > but
>my question was referring to the generic problem with long pick lists in >
>distributed / multi-tier environments.
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All our internet (multi-tier) applications use the strategy of
personalization, that is once a clinician has authenticated to the
system, we use pick lists that are created from the clinician's
preferences. For example, with patients, a clinician can choose to
maintain a list of patients themselves, or we can automatically generate
a daily list of patients scheduled to appear in clinic or we can do
both.
The strategy is to reduce the pick list options to a manageable set
through maintiaining information for each individual clinician. For
orders in general we use the concept of order set's, which once again
can either be instituitionaly defined off our best practices guidelines
and/or customized by the clinician.
