Re: [Gnumed-devel] Social network tweaking and future out-of-praxis provider tracking

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 01:10:32AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> Also, I doubt I am alone in seeing value to input the different doctors (or 
> other providers) that a patient has been seeing or has been referred to (even 
> if, after a time, the patient discontinues to see some of these people). It 
> is embarrassing to re-refer a patient to a doctor when there exists a history 
> that the relationship had problems.
> 
> One obstacle to decide how to manage this is where in GNUmed to store such 
> values. Would it be similar to the drug scheme in which there could be a
> 
>       ref.<table>
> 
> which holds listings outside the praxis of

That may work.

> but when one of these professionals would be actually
> used, would such people get added as "Persons" in GNUmed or
> would these people live only in reference tables. What about
> their addresses and phone numbers etc?

The contact details typically belong to organisations within
which people fulfill roles. Where not (private mobile
number) they belong to a person, yes.

Karsten
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