Has a workflow to attach external files been deployed in OpenMRS? For example, consider the following scenario:
1) A patient receives care at an OpenMRS site. 2) An encounter is created, a referral to a specialist is ordered. 3) Patient leaves. 4) Days later, the specialist's dictated paper note is sent to the clinic. It is scanned and the electronic note must be "attached" to the previous encounter. Given the above, a desirable workflow would be: 1) User selects the patient. 2) User selects "Encounters". 3) User selects "Edit" to edit the previous encounter. 4) User selects "Add Observation". Steps 1-4 exist today, here's the new, hypothetical workflow: 5) Select an observation that indicates the result is an external file (e.g., an observation like, "PDF Referral note" -- let's not focus on the observation name yet, it may not be quite the right model; it's just a concept to trigger the next steps in the workflow): 6) Selecting "PDF Referral note" surfaces an "attach PDF file" option. 7) User selects "Select file" 8) User finds file and clicks "Upload" (this is much like an email attachment workflow) 9) File is uploaded. 10) The observation "PDF Referral note" is added to the encounter. 11) When user clicks on "PDF Referral note" in the appropriate encounter, the PDF file is displayed in an external viewer (again, much like an email attachment is handled by an external application) My question: Has a workflow similar to this been implemented in OpenMRS? Is it in core and I'm missing it? In a module? Thanks for your feedback! Shaun -- Shaun J. Grannis, MD MS FAAFP Research Scientist, Regenstrief Center for Biomedical Informatics Director, Indiana Center of Excellence for Public Health Informatics Associate Professor, Dept of Family Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine 410 West 10th Street, Suite 2000 Indianapolis, IN 46202 Voice 317.423.5523 / Fax 317.423.5695 _________________________________________ 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]
