Revisit/Followup messages and Clinician patient lists
Does anyone else have the circumstance when you think, "I really have to see how this case turns out" and then forget completely about it?
I do it all the time.
I was thinking it might be nice for clinicians to have their own patient list. The idea would be to have a button in both the Medical record editor and the Workflows that allowed a clinician to Add to My List.
In addition, there would always be a worklist for the logged in user that was present as a default Worklist view.
As well as this, I was thinking wouldn;t it be nice if I could send myself a message in the future. The new version of OpenVPMS will have a little message alert somewhere up the top near the user name. If it showed how many new messages you had, wow, I think everyone would start using messaging a whole lot more!
So to summarise, the ideas are;
a) A worklist per user which can be added to at the click/hotkey of a button in Schedules/Worklists or Medical Records.
b) The ability to future date messages.
c) The number of New messages evident in the new Message alert in 1.5
Constructive criticism or indication of support more then welcome.
Cheers,
Matt C
Re: Revisit/Followup messages and Clinician patient lists
Re: Revisit/Followup messages and Clinician patient lists
-- Greenvale Animal Hospital
Messaging
Hi, All good comments - I had previously thought the login screen could come up as messages instead of customers but the message alert would be good too, hot key and future dating. Like Matt we use the schedule but it takes a lot of steps to add.
Definitely a supportable suggestion
Nick
Revisit/Followup messages and Clinician patient lists
Hi everyone,
This idea got some good support but I have neglected it terribly :(
Seeking to make ammends for the interested parties, I have created 2 new development projects for Developer Review
www.openvpms.org/project/user-worklists changed to www.openvpms.org/project/followup-task-lists-enhancements (17/9/10)
www.openvpms.org/project/future-dated-messages-reminders-using-new-message-alert
The second project is Under Discussion but definitely needs input from the developers as none of us know what the new message alert will look like.
Cheers,
Matt C
Revisit/Followup messages
Hi Matt,
I think this idea has merit. I have some different ideas on how it could work though.
Currently many sites already utilise worklists for follow ups. They have implemented "follow-up" views which have a worklist per clinician. They manually add or transfer cases into these worklists future dated. The benefit of using worklists of course is the follow up doesn't get removed until it is completed so if you don't get around to it on the day it will be there the next day etc.
So here's how I see this being enhanced.
Cheers
Tony
Re: Revisit/Followup messages
-- Greenvale Animal Hospital
Re: Revisit/Followup messages
Hi Tony, Love your suggestions.
- The linking of a default worklist to user works for me.
- Followup buttons in Patient Information and Medical records would be great. What about in the schedule and worklist views also (for the current selected patient)?
- The drop down list of different worklists is a good idea. I agree it probably is optional. I would favor the ability to link multiple worklists to a user as "followup lists" and for them to set one as default if this option was used.
- Love you idea for the message notifications in the left panel broken down into the 3 groups you have described (3 messages, 5 current and 3 overdue followup's). If we allowed multiple followup lists per user then the last two values would be the sum of the tasks in all their linked lists.
- In respect to your comment about the way logging in is used in the practice I suppose we may need to change the way we use logins. It seems the clinician context (that which sets the current clinician according to last action) is quite different from the current logged in user which is more of a "user type". The only limitation of this approach is messaging. Currently messaging is used quite a bit for some of our middle management and top level management. The messages are somewhat private as they require logging in. If the currently logged in user is more of a user type (eg clinician, receptionist etc) it makes messaging of limited use. However I like this quick and simple method of changing clinician. Would it be useful that if only some users passwrod protected their login that the change in clinician (through invoicing, consulting whatever) prompted for a password? This would greatly simply the logging in process whilst keeping annoying password prompts to a limited set of users who wanted to protect their messaging. I dunno.
Matt C
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 22:25:35 +0000 (UTC), tony@openvpms.org wrote: > Hi Matt, > I think this idea has merit. I have some different ideas on how it > could work though. > Currently many sites already utilise worklists for follow ups. They > have implemented "follow-up" views which have a worklist per > clinician. They manually add or transfer cases into these worklists > future dated. The benefit of using worklists of course is the follow > up doesn't get removed until it is completed so if you don't get > around to it on the day it will be there the next day etc. > So here's how I see this being enhanced. > > We add support in Administration ->Users to stipulate a default > follow-up worklist. Given the nature of logins in a vet pratice being > typiclaly generic I think the selection of what default follow-up list > to use would be driven by the current clinician not the logged in > user. > Follow-Up buttons are added to the Patient Information and the > Medical Records spaces. This means a follow-up can be quickly created > while consulting or adhoc by navigating to the patient. > These buttons will prompt for a date and notes and create the > necessary follow-up task in the clinicians selected follow-up > worklist. If no worklist is assigned to the clinician the system will > prompt for one. Optional. A worklist selection drop down list > defaulting to default for clinician. This may give option to add case > to a different list of say "Interetsing cases" , "Research Cases" etc. > Version 1.5 does have a new message icon but it is currently not > updated frequently enough. This needs to change as well as we need > to add a follow-up notification as well which counts the number of > In-progress follow-ups you have on the current day in your selected > follow-up list. I would like to see a notication area in the left > panel which is updated every time the customer and patient summary > panels are updated which says "You have 3 messages and 8 followups" or > similar. Based on the start dat eof the followup coudl even say "you > have 3 messages, 5 current and 3 overdue followup's" etc. > > Cheers > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > OpenVPMS User Mailing List > users@lists.openvpms.org > To unsubscribe or change your subscription visit: > http://lists.openvpms.org/listinfo/users > Posts from this mailing list can be viewed online and replied to in > the OpenVPMS User's forum- http://tinyurl.com/openvfu _______________________________________________ OpenVPMS User Mailing List users@lists.openvpms.org To unsubscribe or change your subscription visit: http://lists.openvpms.org/listinfo/users Posts from this mailing list can be viewed online and replied to in the OpenVPMS User's forum- http://tinyurl.com/openvfu
Revisit/Followup messages (Discussion period ended)
Hi everyone,
The period for discussion of this feature is over. I will send the following list of features to the developers for review.
1. We add support in Administration ->Users to stipulate a default follow-up worklist. The selection of default follow-up list to use would be linked to the current clinician not the logged in user.
2. Follow-Up buttons
2.1 Added to the Patient Information and the Medical Records spaces. This means a follow-up task can be quickly created while consulting or adhoc by navigating to the patient.
2.2 Added to the summary section, within the patient. This would allow access from almost all workspaces and may remove the need for 2.1.
2.3 These buttons will prompt for a date and notes and create the necessary follow-up task in the clinicians selected follow-up worklist. If no worklist is assigned to the clinician the system will prompt for one.
3. Add a notication area in the left panel which is updated every time the customer and patient summary panels are updated which says "You have 3 messages and 8 followups" or similar. Based on the start date of the followup task could even say "you have 3 messages, 5 current and 3 overdue followup's" etc.
Cheers,
Matt C
Revisit/Followup messages (Discussion period ended) postscript
Sorry,
I forgot about this feature as well which is just some additional logic in the summary count for messages where;
a) Messages (status = pending) with a start date < current date are considered unread.
b) Messages (status = pending) with a start date > current date are either not counted or counted as future messages.
Messages will still has this functionality becuase it is a lot easier to create a message for another user then it is to admit a patient to their indiovidual followup list.
So this feature will go for Developer Review also.
Cheers,
Matt C
Add support for clinician 'follow up' work lists (Costed)
This project
www.openvpms.org/project/followup-task-lists-enhancements
has been costed at
$990 if fully funded before October. It will be $1180 after October.
Public pledges can be made to this forum topic or email me directly by clicking here (link only works in the forum).
Development will not commence until fully funded.
Matt C
Update to Followup Worklists
At the recent meeting:
o After a decent discussion this whole feature was redefined as follows;
o Create a special worklist for Follow Up
o Add a Follow Up button to Patient Summary that automatically creates a task in Follow Up list.
o Pressing this button shows a dialog where the user selects the date of the followup.
§ The default date is todays but it is selected and can be overwritten immediately.
§ Date shortcuts can be used (eg. -2w)
This project has been moved to Under Discussion so users can add to this initial redefinition