On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:50:39PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote: > Picking out the prescriptions we anticipate being asked for next week is > potentially useful. Sure.
> First separating out those which are down to one repeat, or to none and > not yet reauthorised tends to reduce the pressure to handle them. Sounds useful. > While doing that, we can do some automated looking up, so that a > hypotensive intended for blood pressure treatment triggers retrieval of > the last BP, any relevant blood tests and questions that should have > their answers confirmed. If those are all in range and in time, the > prescription is best reauthorised. > If not, now is a good time to ask them to arrange to meet rather than > ask for a repeat. All very useful but also requires consideration for various bits of near-"expert system" support during database design. > I have assorted bits of SQL and nested If statements, but in principle > this could be done with system independent code or at least pseudocode. > > Do our various evolving systems have the generic capacity to do this, > cleverly? GNUmed humbly denies having that ability. But we are certainly interested in (linking to?) to your "assorted bits of SQL". We could host a page on our Wiki to make things more widely available which you might edit if that is useful to you. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
