Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed documents: about "parts"

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:14:12PM -0800, James Busser wrote:

> It occurs to me that some reports, even though we might receive them as a 
> single file (as a multi-page TIFF or as a PDF), may themselves already 
> contain a variety of different content for example if a patient being 
> discharged from hospital is getting a new gp (or is being newly referred) 
> the discharge/referral package may contain a bundle of
>
>       Admission Hx Px
>       Consultations
>       Imaging (Xray etc) results
>       Lab results
>       Discharge summary
>
> Maybe 5-20 pages.
I would consider this a package of information prepared by a
provider not *intended* to be valued in separation except
for reference after initial consumption.

> If it existed as a single source file, it would be at the discretion of the 
> end-users whether to bother to split this into multiple parts, which GNUmed 
> does not presently build in the tools with which to do this. The user would 
> have to split it outside of GNUmed.
Yes. However, GNUmed offers one little tool: when you drag a
folder onto the parts list it'll dive into that folder and
accept each file as a part (depth of one level).

> It may also be correct to consider any GNUmed "Document" to be a "package" 
> or "bundle" of information that may contain more than one part and even 
> within a single part may contain more than one type of content.
Yes, that's my view. Especially the concept of more than one
type of content is intentional.

> PS on the Import document screen, for the field label "Associated episode:" 
> can we say
>
>       "Associate to episode:"
Done.

> and since "Associated episode:" and "Type:" are required, should they be 
> colored red as in the New patient creation widget?
Done.

Karsten
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