Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter update / creation and moving between patients

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 08:30:12PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> GNUmed 1.3.4
> 
> I set focus on an existing patient and, with the patient in focus, created 
> and attached a document.  That was my last activity for the day yesterday, 
> and I left the GNUmed client running.
> 
> Today, I started creating a new patient. I inputted all required information 
> into the new patient creation widget, and was presented with a prompt to 
> update the encounter information.
> 
> After I updated and saved the encounter information (type, purpose), I 
> realized that what I had done was to alter the information for the encounter 
> that related to *yesterday's* patient, not the new patient whose encounter 
> details I was thinking that I was editing.
> 
> Is it agreed that on this question of the patient who is already in focus, 
> and whom we are about to *leave*, it is better to prompt to complete the 
> in-focus-encounter before the user's brain starts engaging any data relating 
> to the new patient?

That is not possible, by definition.

I modified the encounter dialog:

- reordered instruction and patient field
- show patient in 12pt rather than 10pt like everything else
- show patient in red if different from current patient
- show appropriate instructions if showing encounter edit
  area on leaving patient

Karsten
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