[Gnumed-devel] GUI and plugins questions (single- or multi-patient)

[James Busser]

Presently a user can have a variety of plugins active.

When they start GNUmed, they presently open into a work area that  
shows no patient. I think there had been some consideration of  
whether a last-selected-by-this user patient could be easily (if not  
automatically) re-selected, but that is to the side of what I seek to  
clarify.

Some of the present plugins depend on a patient being already selected:

        Patient details
        EMR tree
        Progress notes
        EMR journal
        Documents
        Import documents

Other plugins will contain items that pertain to multiple patients,  
or to no patients

        Inbox
        LabJournal (once it is ready)
        Reports
        Manual

Here are some things I am thinking / wondering

- for all plugins that handle results for multiple patients, it  
should be possible to filter to the currently-active patient, and we  
must be careful to prevent results from other patients being confused  
to belong to the current patient

- is it therefore important that the current patient is removed from  
focus when reviewing items for multiple patients, maybe by  
presenting, within these plugins, a button "Praxis" or "All patients"?

- if you select an item that belongs to a patient, and if that action  
would raise the attached patient, then any items that belonged to any  
other patient should be filtered out

- should the plugins that do not pertain to the current patient  
somehow be clustered together and maybe dimmed when a patient is in  
focus (until 'Praxis" or "All patients" is clicked?)