On Friday 27 January 2006 03:13 pm, Rick Stockton wrote: ... > Can someone advise me, why does OpenEMR tend to have so many > checkboxes in its forms? (I am without a clue, just a sentence or two > is sufficient.)
Because that's what the docs ask for. Most of them don't like to type a lot of stuff, or can't type quickly; they want to click a few checkboxes and be done with it. For evidence of this see this thread at emrupdate.com: http://www.emrupdate.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4820 which, coincidentally, specifically concerns OpenEMR. Another reason is data mining. It's a lot easier to pick information out of specific data fields than from freeform text. -- Rod www.sunsetsystems.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
