Dear Sam, I think it's wonderful to take OpenEHR in that direction -- not sure what I think of "My Folder" as a name per se :-\
It potentially creates a bit of complication for the app in that it'd need to interface with the doctor/practice appointment book, but as a record concept it seems great. Consent... well, as long as online consent has status. There are of course lots of other folder possibilities: 1. My Goals. Patient goals in their own terms with ongoing patient (and provider) assessment of attainment. Probably fit in exercise regimens here. 2. My Medications. A place for the patient to enter OTC and alternative medications. GEHR handles the fact that this info derives from the patient. The GP app could provide the ability to review-and-confirm the patient's entries. 3. My Learning. A set of on-line learning links apropos to this patient, preferrably including online quizzes and log of results. [Perhaps all of the above, including the appointments, goes under My Plan.] 4. My Observations. Home blood glucose, BP, etc. log -- OK, I'm getting carried away. I like the overall direction a lot. Jim A/Prof Jim Warren Director, Advanced Computing Research Centre University of South Australia Mawson Lakes SA 5095 AUSTRALIA +61 8 8302 3446 warren at cs.unisa.edu.au -----Original Message----- From: Sam Heard [mailto:sam.he...@bigpond.com] Sent: Monday, 25 November 2002 18:09 To: Openehr-Technical Subject: Patient notifications Dear All I have been developing the idea of part of the record that the patient can write in - I have (Gates style) called it My Folder (eh?) and have two subfolders in it at present - consent statements (as these will be written by the patient) and appointments and notifications. It is clear that the patient needs to write and interact with these. I have thought recently that we may be best to develop a transaction for each of the patient notifications - which will have all the details in it - rather than process notifications into a collected transaction (like a calendar) - this means that the application will need to process these. I have thought that we could have an archive folder for when the patient has done whatever was required - or declined to do so. This would mean perhaps an archive folder and an entry for the outcome of the notification. What do you think? Sam ____________________________________________ Dr Sam Heard The Good Electronic Health Record Ocean Informatics, openEHR 105 Rapid Creek Rd Rapid Creek NT 0810 Ph: +61 417 838 808 sam.heard at bigpond.com www.gehr.org www.openEHR.org __________________________________________ - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
