Re: [Gnumed-devel] Better-supporting staff and other non-patient persons

[Jim Busser]

On 11-Jun-09, at 1:45 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote
> In light of now being able to create person records without
> a date of birth shall we rename "register new patient" as
> "register person" ? It would then make a lot more sense.

Yes

> > We also recognize that we may wish to
> > create (register) additional persons, who are not patients and who  
> > are
> > not staff, in the database. I am thinking here consultant  
> > physicians or
> > other clinicians whom we may wish to attach as involved in the  
> > care of
> > particular patients.
> Since there is no explicit marker to the effect of "this is
> a patient" I fail to fully appreciate the problem (apart
> from previously having to enter some sort of DOB which,
> however, isn't taken into argument here).

Do we anywhere relate a table defining kinds of people? When I would  
wish to locate contact information for

        Wong, T (doctor)

as opposed to various other instances of persons also named

        Wong, T (patients and other non-doctors)

existing in GNUmed, how will this be managed?
What if I wish to locate a set of cardiologists among whom I might  
make a referral?


> > The clinical plug-ins (EMR tree, Progress notes, EMR journal,  
> > Documents,
> > Attach documents, and Measurements) should refuse to be switched- 
> > to the
> > way they presently refuse when "no patient is selected". In other  
> > words,
> > they should require more than having a *person* in focus, they should
> > require to have *a person who is_a_patient* in focus.
> Can you register this part as a wishlist bug on launchpad ?

Maybe first needs discussion? You yourself pointed out, higher up in  
this post,
        ... no explicit marker to the effect of "this is a patient"

so we would first need one, or else an alternative marker
        "do not allow this person to be too easily made into a patient
e.g. in the case of persons defined in GNUmed to have some relevance  
as non-patients, for example doctors in one's local community who  
often would not (yet could) be patients.


> > I would relabel the "Patient details" widget to "Demographics" which
> > will cover the general case whether or not the person is a patient.
>
> Done.

:-)