Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Hi,
We have noticed when we print the notes from the patient summary screen that the visit headings are not coming over correctly.
It seems that the visit heading does not come over for every visit and it adds the heading for the next visit - that does not have notes (poss weight check/counter sale) - as the heading for the visit the notes are on rather than the visit reason for the actual visit containing the notes.
Seems to be a bit long winded but hopefully makes sense and others have found same??
Cheers,
Bernie
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Another thought with the patient notes.
Would anyone know how to save them in editable fashion rather than a PDF. Maybe there is a way to edit PDFs that I am not aware of?
There are often bits and bobs recorded that have no relevance when owners move and request history to be forwarded. If we could edit the history at this point to send only the importnant info that would be great.
Bernie
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
One way to do it would be to develop a report that can extract part of the patient history based on some criteria.
Alternatively, the history could be extracted as a CSV file. You could then edit it as required.
-Tim
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Thanks Tim,
I think the editable CSV would be good. What would be the next step to get this to happen?
Cheers
Bernie
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Your implementer might be able to provide you with a report which exports patient history as a CSV file.
This would be launched from Reporting -> Reports.
A solution which enables you to launch the export from the patient summary screen would be simpler to use - you wouldn't need to enter the patient identifier. This would require development work.
-Tim
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
I wondered if anyone else has been following this forum topic and are not happy with the way histories are being printed or is there maybe another way that others are printing that seems to be giving the correct information.
We usually print notes only not all and this is where we get the headings not lining up correctly.
Any input from users would be great.
Bernie
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
I'm happy with the current set up. You should be careful about modifying medical histories at a later date. Medical records are legal documents and shouldn't be modified (although I take your point that they may be long winded, or irrelevant, or have abbreviations that need explanation). You can also set the range for a history if it is too long - provided the most recent history is most relevant.
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Our problem is the visit reasons are not coming over correctly with the visit notes and we would like to amend this not rewrite the history.
Would you mind to let us know how you print your histories is it all or only notes and if this is over a period of time are all of you headings lining up correctly with the notes?
Thanks
Bernie
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
This is how ours looks Bernie, this is the report a default 1.5.1 install should produce...
The report you need to change if you want to change the appearance is called the Patient Visit Report and the default template resides in the reports directory called
patientClinicalEvent a4.jrxml or a5 depending on what u want.
I think thats the report producing the action for that button.
PS the printed records are for my dog...and they are just a demo. I do vaccinate him more than once a decade :P
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Hey thanks Ben,
The layout is correct it is the how the info comes over that seems incorrect. It changes from the screen in open to the print layout.
If you look at your report there is a visit reason on the 09/03/2012 TEST and the notes under that visit are from the 14/12/11. Again this happens on the 22/06/11 with notes from the 15/01/10 I imagine if you look at the screen in open of the notes it will show all of the visit reason headings with the correct notes but it is when you print it that the visit reason headings and the notes seem to get lost.
We put all counter sales, weight checks etc thru on the patient files so I guess we have a few visits without notes - maybe this confuses things?
Your input is appreciated,
Bernie
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Bernie is correct now I get it...
Jasperreports is dropping a visit entry
This is a screen shot of the history above filtered for notes but not the report ...the view as it appears in openvpms
IMO this is a bug, essentially if a visit has no entry(if there is nothing ie wgt etc) associated with it it steals the note from the entry below and that visit entry doesnt print. This will change based on the filter you apply, in essence if my staff add lots of wgt checkups and then I just want to print the notes..which might be say 1:5 of the entries...they dates are going be wrong on the visit-note relationships
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Thanks for confirming the not going crazy part... :)
Would there be any thoughts as to how we fix the report?
Cheers
Bernie
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
The report looks correctly formatted...I think the problem might be with the data bean that Openvpms generates. This form doesnt use sql like most other general reports, it behaves more like an invoice or a receipt type form openvpms generates a databean and this is pushed to the form (or atleast thats how I see it...Tim is probably laughing somewhere). It groups entries by the archetype shortname, but because I dont understand if any other options are available from the datasource I cant see if we can use another grouping to improve the report
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Hi,
I am wondering if anyone may have had a chance to look at this report? The ideas that Ben posted are way out of my computer skills. :)
Thanks,
Bernie
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen
Me Again,
Sorry to be a pain but this report sends me crackers everytime I do a history to send to the specialist.
Any chance some one would have a chance to take a look at how it is behaving?
Thanks,
Bernie
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen (Bug)
Hi guys,
I can confirm the bug report by ben above.
My screen shots attached.
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen (Bug)
Hi Everyone,
I have had a chance to look at this report and ther is a bug. The group by band causes the issue so I have modified the standard A4 and A5 report templates to not use the Reporting Groups. I have attached them to this post so those who are interested can test that they fix their specific issue. If they do then I will make sure they become part of the next upgrade.
Cheers Tony
Re: Printing Notes from patient summary screen (Bug)
Morning,
I have tried the A4 and looks good.
Thanks so much Tony,
Bernie :)