Suggestion: field entries and patient info
Hey team, just a couple of suggestions for making the flow of things faster and easier -
> in fields such as "Appointment Reason" and "Diagnosis" (when making insurance claims), would it be possible to change it so that we can just freely type something into the field instead of having to choose from the giant list?
> Re: patient's DOB information - could it please be displayed as X years and X months (eg. 3y4m), rather than just the nearest year. It would also be great to have the option of entering the patient's rough age if the specific DOB is unknown
Re: Suggestion: field entries and patient info
For the 2nd question thats already possible
Just create a new Duration format
This allows you to customize how it displays. You can see here I turn off months after 2years of age ..but you could just turn it back on.
Its found in Administration - Lookups
https://www.openvpms.org/documentation/csh/2.3/admin/lookup/durationFormats
Re: Suggestion: field entries and patient info
Hey thanks for that info!
I have added a new duration format as per your instructions but it is still displaying ages in OpenVPMS's default format (eg. 20 months instead of 1y8m, 3 months instead of 12 weeks, 12 years instead of 12y10m etc etc).
There was no other active duration format that I could see when I added the new one so just wondering why it's not changing the display format? I have refreshed the browser a few times and also logged out/back in and still not changing :(
Re: Suggestion: field entries and patient info
The first issue is complicated
I will say that freehand Diagnosis's may lead to slow and non payment of claims -
The claims handlers work from lists - if you write your own - it may mean the claim needs detailed assessment.
But if you want to change it
You need to modify the archetypes
In this case you need to change act.patientInsuranceClaimItem and change the Reason node
Remove the descriptor.assertion that uses a lookup. You can just delete the assertion. Which means you can enter anything in that field.
Re: Suggestion: field entries and patient info
> in fields such as "Appointment Reason" and "Diagnosis" (when making insurance claims),
> would it be possible to change it so that we can just freely type something into the field
> instead of having to choose from the giant list?
Any field with a binoculars button
supports automatic completion, so if you type a partial entry and press Enter it will display a restricted set of entries based on your input. See Data Search for more details.
We don't recommend changing archetypes to make these fields free-form.
> Re: patient's DOB information - could it please be displayed as X years and X months (eg. 3y4m),
> rather than just the nearest year.
As per Ben's comment, but if you create a new Duration Format, you need assign it to the Patient Age Format of the Practice.
> It would also be great to have the option of entering the patient's rough age if the specific DOB is
> unknown
You can do this already using relative date shortcuts. E.g.:
See Dates for more details.