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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed + KOrganizer (appointments and scheduling)
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed + KOrganizer (appointments and scheduling) |
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Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:18:11 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Jim,
BTW, feel free to add those considerations to a consolidated
scheduling page in the Wiki. Just make sure it's (also)
reachable from the MiniProjects page as that is what I gave
the KDE people to look into.
Thanks,
Karsten
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:45:58AM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed + KOrganizer (appointments and
> scheduling)
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>
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> >Ich habe mal niedergeschrieben, was unsere Anforderungen wären:
> > http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/MiniProjects#AnchorKOrganizer
>
> Sorry if I missed any description of the plan or idea for this.
>
> Perhaps KOrganizer is a useful way to get appointment-management
> going for GNUmed, I do not know the program or its technology well
> enough. But maybe there is value considering or sharing thoughts on
> the following:
>
> 1. does coding to KOrganizer tie Linux users to KDE or can KOrganizer
> be used under other desktops without the user having to run all of
> KDE? Would KOrganizer be installed and running on each desktop or
> only on the server, and would the KOrganizer data set be shared from
> a single file on the server? Is there a problem if a user somehow
> creates additional appointments with the data stored somehow on their
> own desktop?
>
> 2. what would it mean for a non-Linux OS? For Mac OS, KOrganizer
> looks to be ported (Mac OS 10.3 PowerPC chip but not yet 10.4 Intel
> chip). For Windows I found http://dot.kde.org/1062148358/ but
> following a link to www.thekompany.com it looks like the Aethera
> suite for Windows (now) instead uses Kolab.
>
> 3. even if KOrg runs under multiple OS, how shall doctors manage 2
> electronic calendars (a patient calendar and a personal calendar)
> especially if it is possible that both types of appointments could
> appear in the same calendar application. This may not be anything new
> for doctors who already use some non-GNUmed electronic patient
> calendaring but there can be more than one approach and maybe it is
> worth discussing any best solutions?
>
> I am not sure I would want personal appointments to show up in the
> same calendar being used by the office without sophisticated masking,
> though maybe KOrganizer already does that. I am used to carrying some
> schedule information in my Palm (PIM) but am less sure carrying any
> details of booked patients. I suppose for personal (non-patient)
> scheduling, a doctor could use Outlook or Apple iCal synced to their
> PIM and only mark (block) the days and hours that are reserved for
> patient appointments, leaving out any detail of those appointments,
> this would instead be managed inside KOrganizer. It is true the
> doctor could log into GNUmed remotely when they want to check on
> their *usual* bookings, but a problem arises when the office needs to
> special-book a patient outside of the doctor's usual block times...
> but maybe that would anyway require a special contact with the doctor
> to get their agreement for a special appointment and they would add
> this into their PDA as "clinic" or "surgery" without the patient
> details.
>
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