Re: [Gnumed-devel] client 0.5.rc2 bug "Attach documents" plugin

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:09:35PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> Comments are enforced to be made, when they are supposed to be optional. 
> If this needs a reminder, let me know whether to add it at launchpad.

Should be fixed now.

> Despite that office assistants need to be able to help with document  
> importing, they are qualified to complete only some of the mandatory  
> fields. In particular, the non-clinician should not be deciding the  
> association to which episode.

> The alternative would be to have the non-clinician enter some new value 
> for every imported document like
>       new referral
> or
>       x-ray report
>
> however, under this approach, despite that the signing clinician could 
> alter the association to some other episode, it leaves an empty (orphan) 
> Unattributed episode that takes extra steps to delete from the EMR tree.

If an praxis deems it important to not let import assistants
decide on the final episode they should, indeed, use a
dedicated episode, IMO.

It can be made a wishlist item to make that nullable. I
don't consider it of particular priority, though.

Karsten
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