Re: [Health-dev] Patient allergy module for GNU Health?

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Andrew !
On 10/23/2013 02:18 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> I agree Luis that a separate allergy module is a bit "over the top" but I 
> think 
> it would be better for allergies to be separated from the main "Diseases" 
> section of GNU Health (at the moment the allergy info. tends to get a bit 
> lost 
> with the other disease entries).
You're right. I agree allergies get a bit misty in the middle of the
other diseases, and they should be always be shown upfront.

Allergies / hypersensitive reactions should be encoded at the diseases
tab, as the primary model, so we don't duplicate / violate data
uniqness. But yes, once we enter them, we should see them in the front
view, so no chances of missing them.

> 
> What about a new TAB on the main patient 
> chart?
> 
> | Allergies |
> 
> On opening this tab the physician would select:
> 
> 1. 
> Allegy status unknown
> 2. No known allergies or intolerances
> 3. Drug 
> allergy/intolerance
> 4. Drug Group allergy/intolerance
> 5. Non-Drug 
> allergy/intolerance
> 
> If a drug/drug group allergy/intolerance is recorded then 
> the drug or drug group can be searched for and selected:
> 
> Drug: amoxicillin 
> (with ICD-10 code or SNOMED CT code)
> 
> Drug group: penicillins (with ICD-10 code 
> or SNOMED CT code)
> 
> It would be good if this information could then be 
> displayed in the "Free text" box next to the patient's photograph.
I propose creating a functional field (it retrieves the values at
real-time, no storage ) that displays all allergy related information
about the patient in the that position, by the "PAtient allergies and
critical info".

If we use a functional field, then it will be "read-only", specific for
allergies.

What do you think ?
> 
> Does this 
> sound do-able?
> 
Sure :)
> Regards
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 


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