Additional Requirements : Duty Service
out of working hours
Version 0.3, Etiene Saliez
- Duty
service:
- Introduction:
- During nights,
week-end and holidays, the normal doctor is not available. If
necessary a duty service can be called, coming from a wider zone.
He
knows nothing about the patient and his mission is temporary.
Nevertheless he should become a temporary member of the Care
Team
of the patient.
- As for GPs, wireless mobile
computers are here very desirable.
- Access
to information:
- With the agreement of
the patient who did call, he should
have access to the patient record. Up to date information
should
be available, an up to date problem list and the current care plan.
- New information:
- The
new contact generate some new information, observations, maybe a new
problem, maybe a modification of the current Care Plan.
- The
new information should be made available immediately for the Care Team,
on a regional servers.
Moreover
a notification must be send, at least to the referent doctor, and
sometimes to others. In case of a request for admission, a
notification is to be send to the emergency entrance of the hospital.
- Moreover
a statistical classification could be required for management purpose
and for the justification of the funding of the duty service.