I agree. elpidio
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 12:52, Horst Herb wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:47, Elpidio Latorilla wrote: > > The difficult part is to know which data are most important. Since I am > > not a GP I am inclined to look at GnuMed and other similar apps (unless I > > get a chance to observe a GP at work for a substantial length of time). > > > > One solution is to make it user-configurable. Data are grouped and the > > user selects which groups are to be shown as his personal default. > > Ideally, the user can decide where on the page and how the groups are > > displayed. Template system? > > It *is* user configurable. The user interface is just a frame work for plug > in GUI modules, which can be configured even at run time any way you want > and need. No single user interface would fit all needs of medical > practitioners of various disciplines in various environments (private > practice, community health, hospital, research ...). But a common database > can be accessed through a multitude of user interfaces tailored to need - > and this is what gnumed attempts. > > I want to stretch the fact that the majority of active gnumed developers > are actually practising doctors, with many -like me- working in a busy > paperless medical practice since many years and knowing exactly what they > don't like with their current software and what they would need & expect > from any future ideal software. > > If you see a patient every 6-10 minutes you can't afford to dick around > with software more than a minute (60 seconds!) to do all your documentation > etc. Hospital doctors tend to have a lot more time than this and may be > able to put up with a less responsive but also less "cluttered" web > interface > > Horst
