[Gnumed-devel] trade off utility with getting screens to crammed

[J Busser]

At 9:39 AM +1100 11/15/04, Richard Terry wrote:
> For a rather extreme example of what happens
> when you try and fit everything into the one screen area see the tkpf EMR
> project screenshots:
>
> http://tkfp.sourceforge.net/index.php?type=Screenshots&cat=8

I see what you mean...

> I find in clinically practice one does not often refer to past history in
> current consultations. When one does I either flick to my past history
> section, or the summary screen.

The acceptable trade offs for info about the *current* patient should 
IMHO involve

- display of health_issues and episodes probably needs to be 
adjacent, not overlain on, the RFE/SOAP note or Richard's version -- 
either form hence dubbed an RSOAP note ;-). I suspect adjacency is 
important, because if there is overlap, the view is obscured when 
associating highlighted or demarcated text snippets to a particular 
episode and also I worry that a stray click will bring to the 
foreground a window which might then completely hide a smaller window 
(though I imagine th esoftware could prevent that)

- if other relevant *parts* of the patient info are not on-screen, 
then at least being able to *easily* (in one step i.e. one 
mouse-click, or one key press -- maybe an F-key depending on F-key 
mapping) "reveal" these other relevant "parts"