Basic Patient Handling
This section teaches the basic ways of handling patients and demographic data in the GNUmed EMR system.
Concepts
When the GNUmed client starts up there is no patient selected by default. You must activate a patient by searching for it before GNUmed will allow you to access certain parts of the user interface. Once a patient has been activated there will always be an active patient (namely the one you last worked on).
Searching for a Patient
- in the top toolbar of the GNUmed client click on the search box
- type a search term (usually part of the patient name)
- hit [ENTER]
If only one patient matches the search term that patient is made active. If several patients match the search term a list is shown so the proper patient can be selected. If no patient matches the search term the wizard for creating a new patient is invoked which is then made active. Useful search terms include:
- parts of last and/or first name(s) with or without a separating "," including previous names that are not active anymore
- the GNUmed internal patient ID (prepend with "#" for even faster access)
- any number that is linked to a patient as an external ID
- date of birth (if entered in a format recognized by PostgreSQL to be a date)
Several keys and key combinations bring up tools and selections:
<Cursor-Down>
- shows a list of the ten most-recently activated patients to select from
<Cursor-Up>
- brings up the term used in the most recent search
<F-2>
- brings up a list of external patients to select from
- external patients can come from various sources:
- detected to be active in other software running concurrently
- exported for patient exchange by other software
- other sources to follow soon (say, German KVK chipcards)
Registering a New Patient
- in the main menu of the GNUmed client activate the Patient menu
- select the Register new patient menu item
This will start a wizard for adding a new patient to your GNUmed EMR system. You may know how to use a wizard from software installers. A wizard is a sequence of pages each of which asks a few closely related questions. When the
[Finish] button is clicked a new patient is added to the database with the data provided in the wizard. Pages will contain required fields which are labelled in red. Some combinations of fields may only become mandatory if any of them is filled in (eg one cannot enter just a zip code and leave blank the rest of the address fields). Mandatory fields that are missing data will be prompted and underlaid in pink when the attempt is made to save the patient.
The actual pages offered in the wizard will depend on several factors including the country you use GNUmed in or the type of insurance policy this patient is under. You will be asked for basic patient demographics such as first and last names, date of birth and gender in any case.
Editing Patient Demographics
- in the main menu of the GNUmed client activate the Patient menu
- select the Edit demographics menu item
This will bring up a notebook page with three tabs. First tab will read
Identity, second will read
Contacts and the third one will read
Occupations. Fields that correspond with data stored in the database will be filled in automatically. Mandatory fields will show up in red color. Once you have finshed editing hit the
Store button at the bottom, If you feel you wnat to start over while editing just hit the
Restore button and all fields will be restored with unmodified values from the database.
Merging Duplicate Patients
This is not implemented yet.
Deleting a Patient
We do not support
deleting a patient from within the Python reference client.
You can, however,
disable a patient so that it will not be treated as an active patient anymore. Once
merging two patients is implemented you can make accidentally duplicated patients
disappear by merging the duplicate into the
real patient. Disabling a patient is a priviledged operation for which you will need to know the administrator password.
If you really
really want to physically
delete a patient from the database (say, for privacy reasons) you need to get in touch with your database administrator (the person with the account
gm-dbo
) to have it done manually at the database console.
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