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[Gnumed-devel] Notes editor 0.4.6-1 feedback and suggestions
From: |
Jim Busser |
Subject: |
[Gnumed-devel] Notes editor 0.4.6-1 feedback and suggestions |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:49:19 -0700 |
I continue to be impressed with this new notes editor which features
a three-way split:
left upper = Active Problems
left lower = Most Recent Related Notes
right = New notes in current encounter
Can I ask (suggest) labels that may be clearer to newbie doctor users:
1) At top right, can we change "New notes ..." to "New notelets ..."
I know that "Notelets" is not a standard word, but Notelets will help
to get across that the encounter will have more than one note "part".
2) "Request" ... is somewhat ambiguous as, in english unfortunately,
we have the problem when the same word is sometimes a noun:
request as "purpose of encounter" (noun) -- which is what we intend vs.
request as "(now) ask for something" (verb)
I very much think "Purpose" would be better but, if it is desirable
that this not be just one arbitrary GNUmedder opinion shall I ask a
few doctor colleagues their views?
3) when one opens this plugin, by default there is open an editor
named "new episode" however it would be better to say "new problem".
The reason I would avoid "new episode" is because – in the case of
existing active problems – the user would be better to double-click
on one of these visible active problems. Otherwise, it should be a
new problem (even while, admittedly, a new episode) and it can always
be attached to one of the patient's Health Issues (which may be
relevant but not active therefore omitted from the list of Active
Problems) at any later time.
Can we change (in the upper left corner "Active problems") the column
label
"Problem" into
"Episode"
Can we change the prompt
"Enter a descriptive name for the new episode:" to
"Enter a short working name for the episode:"
("short" is important on account of if it is lengthy then the in the
"Active Problems" area one cannot see the column "Health issue"
Can we change the text inside the title of the "Save" window from
"Adding a new episode" to
"Saving episode information"
Can we swap the positions of the three-button sets (left vs right)
Save: All Encounter Notes
Editor: New Clear Discard
so that the "Save" ones are to the right?
Can we change "Editor;" to "Notelet:"
Does save "All" mean Encounter + all notelets?
Is the Encounter button non-responsive while the "Summary" text is
empty?
Lastly, over in the EMR tree, instead of listing at left
<date of encounter>: <text of AOE>
what about instead listing
<date of encounter>: <encounter type>
given that the left pane tidily accommodates the encounter type
whereas the AOE can only be partly shown, and also can be confusing
to the brain to see the same text replicated multiple times in the
left pane. To me, the value of the AOE is on the right side of the
EMR tree when one is looking inside the detail of any Notelet to be
reminded what else was managed in the same encounter.
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