Well me and Karsten had this discussion a while ago ... about formatting the SOAP,
He says that there is a *plan* to make the SOAP dysplay HTML, but it is not a priority.
I told him that there were ways to format a text better even without HTML just using spaces or "wrapping / unwrapping" the headers, and he agreed, so this is where we are.
I think that more important than the formatting of the SOAP is the organization... can we take a vote to see whether or not to place the "Patient Request" above the "Subjective" ?
I vote yes.
And later I think we should vote to take out the term "Foundational" and go for "Health Issue" and later still vote to make the SOAP editor speak *exactly* the same as the viewer (now it says things like Objective in the viewer and "Findings" on the editor)
:))) Lots of votes ...
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2008/9/15 James Busser
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I am only thinking it is helpful / desirable that the datetime stamp and provider be able to be mentally set aside so that the clinician can focus on the actual content (the "story") that is inside the note. Maybe to put at at the top of each segment, and formatted differently to de-emphasize it, could help.
I think I still like it better "trailing" especially is there is some additional or other way to see the information in the tree or the right panel. If any one SOAP display is always limited to chunking together only the clinical narrative that relates to the particular day then maybe the date could be abstracted higher in that item's display and only the times shown.