Re: [Health-dev] GNU Health child immunisation schedule functionality?

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Ceci !

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 16:36:21 -0300
Maria Cecilia Santos Popper <address@hidden> wrote:

> I would really like to help with this issue.
> It would be great to have a new module to manage vaccines.

Thank you ! Nice module ahead :)

> 
> The tabular interfaces seems a good option.
> Another usefull option would be to be able to group patients with a
> due or pending vaccine according to a geographic area in order to be
> able to plan campaings more easily.
> 
> Another important issue is stock control, and being able to trace
> vaccines lots, refrigeration chain, etc.
Yes. This should be part of the health_stock module

 
> In Argentina we have a huge vaccination schedule with more than 12
> different vaccines in the first 6 years, son there is a lot of
> information to process, so is the nurses workload.
> This would be a great feature for 2.8 version!
> 
> Count me in to work on this
I just wrote back to Andrew in the list, so any comments / suggestions
are most welcome :)

Best,

> 
> Cecilia
> El 26/10/2014 08:43, "address@hidden" <
> address@hidden> escribió:
> 
> > Yes Luis, I agree that the WHO list should be used as a reference
> > resource in
> > GNU Health.
> >
> > What about functionality? Some ideas:
> >
> >
> >
> > When opening the patient
> > record, a pop up message occurs in GNU Health for all "patients" <
> > 18 years old.
> >
> > "Do you want to review / amend this patient's routine immunisation
> > record?"
> >
> > If yes then a tabular form could appear with the child's
> > immunisation record to date.
> >
> > If a date had been passed without the record being "ticked as
> > administered" then it might have a red background.
> >
> >
> >
> > Other ideas might be to
> > produce standard reports which would list all patients due to have
> > vaccines on
> > a particular day / week. The child health professional could then
> > contact the
> > family to bring the child into clinic.
> >
> > I think we both agree that this is very
> > important GNU Health functionality and is well worth a significant
> > amount of
> > development time.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
> >