cfapress wrote on Monday, January 12, 2009:
I’m about to undertake a host of enhancements to the Patient screens in OpenEMR. Before I really dig in, I’d like to get feedback from other developers as to what of these ideas is good or bad. I’ll list the issue/idea followed by my suggested correction/update/enhancement.
- In the Patient Vitals form you cannot specify a Temp. Method so it defaults to Auxiliary.
== Correct this exculsion in the form
- How can I remove forms which have been accidentally added. For example I cannot remove a duplicate Vitals entry, which is blank, from a patient encounter?
== Enable corrections to forms but log their changes for an audit trail
- When searching for ICD9 code I can’t tell if the computer is doing anything
== Add a spinning graphic that indicates the computer is "doing something"
- The Report section for Patients is pretty ugly and needs serious reformatting, although the printed report (PDF file) looks much nicer
== Update the reports using CSS and better HTML structure to make them prettier
- In the Review of Systems the output is very jumbled, not organized in any way, difficult to read, and shows fields with a ‘N/A’ value when showing them has no value at all.
== Evaluate how this particular form is presented and exclude N/A fields when the summary is displayed. Sort the fields alphabetically too
- The upper area of an encounter gets very cluttered when a single encounter has Vitals, SOAP notes, Review of Systems, and even more forms associated with it
== Using CSS and more HTML structure try to enhance the presentation of the encounter information
- The list of past Immunizations, at the bottom, needs to be sorted; by date is good but better would be by immunization and then by date, thus grouping the immunizations together
== Make the past immunization table sortable by clicking on the column headers
- The general patient notes can be seen by anyone with access to the client’s info. Can we mark some notes as private so only the author of them, or an administrator, can see them?
== Add a new checkbox to patient notes that makes them private to the author only
I have other comments from the users (two nurses) but they pertain strictly to School Based Health Centers. I believe they can be addressed through add-on forms.
Jason