Hi Jeremy, I have been playing around with the module a bit and my main question is "How to add encounters, observations, and household attributes"? Do you have to put it into a form? Should it just appear in the "Household tab"?
Thanks Evelyn On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Evelyn Castle <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > The module seems pretty simple so really just a quick "how-to" guide would > be helpful. > > Also, if I can get some advice.... We are implementing this system in 1 > village to be used to monitor maternal and newborn care. For the entire > village, I have a list of all the households, their codes, and the women who > belong to them. For the total number of women in the village, about half of > them will at some point be entered into the system (either for ANC or child > health). However, at no point will the male household heads be entered into > the OMRS system. So, I can either enter enroll the men as patients (just > registration), and then assign them as the house head, or I can assign one > of the wives as the household head (I don't know which woman in the house is > the sr. wife, so I would have to arbitrarily assign it to one of the women). > > Can anyone give a reason why I one of these options would be better than > the other? Obviously it would take less time for me to just assign a woman > as house head, but they are more likely to "leave" a house vs. the male. Any > suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Evelyn > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jeremy Keiper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Evelyn, that's great! I will ask the AMPATH developers to give more >> detailed information on the wiki. Is there anything you specifically need >> to know that they can address first? >> >> Jeremy Keiper >> OpenMRS Core Developer >> AMPATH / IU-Kenya Support >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Evelyn Castle >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Can someone please upload some documentation to the Household Module >>> wiki page <http://wiki.ampath.or.ke/display/ampath/Household+Module>? We >>> are going to use this in one of our installs. I have it up and running fine >>> on 1.8.2 but I would prefer to read a bit more about the set up before I get >>> going on it. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Evelyn >>> >>> -- >>> Evelyn Castle >>> Co-Director, eHealth Nigeria >>> +1 415 545 8289 (US) >>> website: http://www.eHealthNigeria.org >>> blog: http://www.evelyncastle.com >>> skype: evelynlcastle >>> ------------------------------ >>> Click here to >>> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from >>> OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Click here to >> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from >> OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list > > > > > -- > Evelyn Castle > Co-Director, eHealth Nigeria > +1 415 545 8289 (US) > website: http://www.eHealthNigeria.org > blog: http://www.evelyncastle.com > skype: evelynlcastle > -- Evelyn Castle Co-Director, eHealth Nigeria +1 415 545 8289 (US) website: http://www.eHealthNigeria.org blog: http://www.evelyncastle.com skype: evelynlcastle _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]
