Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed post 1.0 - social network

[Jim Busser]

> On 2011-09-21, at 7:37 AM, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>>      Provider name   Provider type   Seen since      Last referral (date / 
>> reason)   Next appt status
> 
> <snip>
> is there any reason why not to put them into
> 
>       dem.identity
> 
> particularly when they can be assigned an external_id

The side effect of non-patients showing up in searches for patients could be 
avoided by setting such new persons to have

        dem.identity.deleted

set to TRUE however some better name should be found for deleted or another 
column added.

Some time ago I got seeming agreement on …

> From: Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden>
> Date: July 4, 2011 11:26:36 AM PDT
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Should patients have a "status" ?
> 
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:16:47AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>> re my
>> 
>>>> I think that tracking […]
>>>> when the patient is inactive vs active […]
>>>> […] warrants to be a primary
>>>> attribute and really should be included into dem.identity
>>>> table.
>> 
>> so… you are open to this in GNUmed future?
> 
> I think you've got good arguments in favor of it :-)
> 
> Karsten

so we could rename 'deleted' to be

        nonpatient BOOLEAN

(or we could add a new column, if there is some separate reason to keep 
deleted) and we could by this means so-manage both staff and non-staff 
providers. 

It could be possible to update the behaviour  of  "Enlist as user" such that 
any staff who were not already patients could be made nonpatients. This would 
help address the concerns about staff poking their nose into the personal 
information of other staff.

-- Jim