Re: [Health] How to search a Patient by Phone

[Khurram Shahzad]

Dear Luis,

Thank you so much for such a quick action.

Thanks to all others for their participation.

Regards,

Khurram.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Luis Falcon <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Prakhar !

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:55:30 +0530
Prakhar Bansal <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> On Friday 25 March 2016 10:01 PM, Chris wrote:
> > Hiya!
> >
> > On 03/24/16, Luis Falcon wrote:
> >> Hi Chris and Khurram !
> >> On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:38:52 -0700
> >> Chris <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hiya!
> >>>
> >>> On 03/21/16, Khurram Shahzad wrote:
> >>>> Dear,
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to search in the patient records by using the phone number
> >>>> which I have already entered in the contact mechanism.
> >>> I don't believe you can explicitly search by phone number, only
> >>> name (lastname, family, etc.), puid, or alternative ids.
> >>>
> >>> Although, it would be simple to add that. I'm thinking email
> >>> would be helpful, too. Thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> -C
> >>>
> >> We currently directly (without the need of filters) search a person
> >> record by
> >>
> >> * PUID
> >> * Any Alternative IDs
> >> * Family names
> >> * Given Names
> >>
> >> We could expand the search to include the contact mechanism (phone,
> >> emails, mobiles , ... ), similarly as we do with the alternative
> >> IDs
> > Better explained than I did! Hehe.
> >
> > I think it would be helpful. Although, the absolute practical value
> > seems intermittent and sparse - that is, most will be searching by
> > name, puid, etc. In a similar way, we should be able to search by
> > DOB, too, since that seems a common way to search as well. However,
> > you get into the problem of searching every parameter, etc. Won't
> > go that far, I hope.  Hehe.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -C
>
> IMO, search by phone number is better approach. Patients might not
> remember the PUID or multiple patients can have the same name. But a
> mobile number or a phone number provides a unique search and helps in
> fetching unique records.

Done in this task [1] . It will be a standard feature in 3.2

1.- https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?13937


Bests

>
> >
> >> Let me know your thoughts
> >>
> >>
> >> Bests,
> >> Luis
>
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Regards,

Khurram.