Patient Forms
Hi all,
We have lots of patient forms/templates that we use in hospital.
I notice that when you 'check in' the patient to the waiting room, it prompts you to print a patient form. Eg: hospitalisation form, procedure consent form. At that stage we often don't know if the patient is going to be admitted to hospital or not.
Is there any way to get the same prompt when you transfer the patient from the waiting room to the hospital list? Or do you just have to do it manually >>patient>>medical records>>documents>>new.
Any help much appreciated!
Amanda.
Re: Patient Forms
Hi Amanda,
Currently you need to do it manually but I agree it woudl gbe much better the way you suggest. I would like to see it so that you can define what documents you want to print for each worklist so when you transfer into that worklist it automaticaly prompts you to print them. I think we could then also remove the document prompt at check-in as this would be superflous.
We are looking for funded development projects to include in 1.6 so if this is important to you and others push for a development project and help to fund it. :-)
Cheers
Tony
Re: Patient Forms
We could see this feature working in our Practice,
Bernie
Re: Patient Forms
Hi Tony et al,
Could this change be incorporated to include the suggestiions in this development project?
http://www.openvpms.org/project/new-style-document-selector (currently status = "Developer Review")
It looked at adding a Classification (or other type of association) to any document type (form, letter etc). Thereby allowing users to define what appeared in various document selection prompts at different times (ie. Check-In, Check-Out etc).
Matt C
Re: Patient Forms
Hi Matt,
This can be incorporated. I think using classifications is a good move so we should move the existing report type to be a classification as well.
So to summarise the following changes would be made:
Does this sound right ?
Cheers
Tony
Re: Patient Forms
Hi Tony,
Sorry. 4 days is a good turn around for me at the moment!
I like all the changes. With respect to;
I think this loses some of the flexibility the current document selector presents (ie. It allows users to pick and chose from a list, albeit currently a too long list). I think being prompted for documents to print as a series of dialogs could be frustrating/slow.
I remember a suggestion made at the Melbourne Users group last year that there be a print button for each document listed in the document selector. This would allow a user to arbitarily print any combination of documents from a user defined list.
In this context it would work as follows;
1. User selects New Task , Worklist Transfer and Check-In.
2. If the worklist has associated documents, it shows a document selector containing those documents. Each document has a print button. If a worklist has no associated documents, no document selector is shown at all.
Whaddya reckon?
Matt C
Re: Patient Forms
Hi Matt,
Sorry for late reply :-)
I agree with this but maybe rather than print buttons next to each document we use the same checkbox selection dialogue we use for check out and also the same logic based on the templates Preferred Print Mode selection ?
Cheers
Tony
Re: Patient Forms
Hi Tony,
Yes this minimises the number of changes and prevents too busy a dialog hey?
Initially when I read your reply I thought it may limit someone who wanted to print say, 3 patient labels by pressing the print button 3 times, but the Template setup now has a default number of copies... is that right?
Matt C