CCTOS Common : Patient Groups

• Objectives:
• An object representing a group of patients having some common attributes and providing an easy way to retrieve such a group and to show a list.
  
• Approaches:
• Typical groups:
• Critical patients needing continuous attention:
• For example the patients currently in the emergency entrance of a hospital.
  
• Current session history:
  
• Incoming notifications:
• Patients records having received some new information.  If the user did receive a notification asking to pay attention to this new information, the list contain links to new information he should have a look at.
• Remark:  messages received without obvious reliable identification are directed to a kind of waiting mailbox.
  
• Admitted patients from diverse points of view:
• Doctors having several patient in different wards.
• Nurses in charge of a ward.
  
• Patients needing some kind of follow up:
• Waiting for answers to requested information, like lab, images, ...
• Patients having today an appointement in the agenda of the user.
  
• Reminders about TODO activities:
• Next vaccination,
• Planned preventive check-ups.
  
• ....
• Follow-up of patients having a given condition, e.g. diabetes.
• Patients having an administration problem:
  
• .....
• Content of the list:
• List description:
• For every patient inside the list:
• At least the patient identification in one line.
• Optional view on more information:
• Short summary of the current situation.  Typically in an emergency department a doctor has to follow several patients at the same time, e.g. during the XRays of one patient moving to the next one.
  
• Current main problem
• Current ongoing activities, what is one waiting for and since how long.
• Current location of the patient,
• In case of notifications, links to the new information to be looked at.
  
• ....
• Clicking on an element of the list provide a zoom to more detailed information.