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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Re: Immunisation edit question
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Karsten Hilbert |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Re: Immunisation edit question |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:30:24 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.22.1i |
> Another example becomes relevant once GnuMed could support entering
> referrals for consultation. Your patient then goes to the emergency
> room with chest pain, and you learn from a discharge slip (or a phone
> message left by the patient) that the Emergency Physician arranged
> for the patient to be seen by Dr X, one of several local
> cardiologists. Dr X may have seen your patient at the time, and/or
> may intend an office visit in the near future. You may well want to
> capture that Dr X has become involved.
>
> As it is not you who initiated that request for consultation, there
> is nothing your office staff need do to make it happen. Yet the next
> time you are responsible for care, if you were to check GnuMed for
> any consultant involvement, you would want Dr X's name to show up
> here, and not in some other section of the program called "hospital
> visits", "care delivered elsewhere" or "miscellaneous notes".
That is akin to generating a "dummy" order "go see Dr X" and
putting "initiated by Emergency Physician at DGH" into the
attached clinical note, no ?
Karsten
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