bradymiller wrote on Thursday, October 29, 2015:
Hi,
Transaction sounds like a good route for the form since won’t be based on encounter and can configure whatever you want for your discharge form. The nice thing there is that it could be done in a way to record more than 1 discharges from the clinic. For example, discharged after issue #1 is resolved(or is a sociopath). Then returns again for issue #2 (or is less of a sociopath).
Bringing that into the patient searching sql query will likely be much tougher than if just had a flag in patient_data.
So may want to do both(the transaction for the documentation/recording and the flag in patient_data for the quick is patient not discharged or discharged in the sql queries (would this be the same as not active or active?)).
-brady
OpenEMR