Re: [Health-dev] Prescribing medicines vs Administering medicines

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Andrew !

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:35:37 +0000 (GMT)
"address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Luis
> 
> I think GNU Health needs to differentiate the date/time that a 
> medication/vaccine is prescribed/ordered and the date/time that the
> medication is actually administered to the "person" by the
> appropriate healthcare professional - doctor/nurse etc.
> 
> Sometimes, if the medicine is a one-off dose 
> (stat) then the doctor/prescriber might want to "prescribe and
> administer" in one single workflow process - a "prescribe and
> administer" button option would be very useful. 

I like that "prescribe and administer" option ! It sounds quite
practical. Will add it to 3.0 :)

Thanks a lot for your great suggestion, as usual !

Best,

> 
> I don't think that we should get too involved in the 
> medication administration workflow just at the moment but we need to
> analyze and define the process for the development road-map.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrew
>