====== Requirements and Features ======
This stuff needs to be scoped by December 8.

  * minimum 21 inch wide screen
    * always show client info  
    * customizable interface.  Windows should be collapsible & editable components  
   * 6 doctors per clinic


====== Priority ======
  * Scheduler
  * SOAP Notes / Chart
  * Labs / XRay - Early Spike, http://oscarubuntu.blogspot.com/2011/01/update-january-2011.html
  * Billing

====== Requirements ======


===== Scheduler =====
==== User Workflow ====
  * new patient walks into clinic ("walk in").
  * scheduled patient walks in 
  * phone call to make/book appointment 

==== Must have ====
  * Appointment booking
  * hours of staff
  * tied to patient files
  * day, week, month views
  * per doctor, all doctors/staff schedule views

==== Nice to have / future ====
  * data mining. analysis of appointment frequency, length etc.

===== Patient Chart/file =====
==== User Workflow ====


==== Must have ====
  * Demographics / personal info
    * Searchable
  * Visit History
    * SOAP format (subjective, objective(more fields), assessment, plan)
  * 5 common templates
    * ex) full physical, child etc
  * Billing codes after soap
  * Allergies
  * problem list / family history (ongoing problems)
  * medical list
  * social history (smoke, married etc)
  * Referrals (data) 
  * modification history / audit trail


==== Nice to have / future ====
  * In the SOAP section
    * subsections(ability to drill down) to add/look up more info
      * Objective
      * Assessment -> link to ICD9 (disease number code)
      * Plan -> hook into Prescription database
  * data mining for objective fields.  Analysis.

===== Billing =====
==== User Workflow ====
==== Must have ====
  * must talk to AB health
==== Nice to have / future ====

===== Communication System (tasks / messages)=====
==== User Workflow ====
==== Must have ====
  * between staff
  * link to files / charts
  * reminders, notifications, overdue tasks (email notif)


==== Nice to have / future ====
  * features for communicating to patients through the internet
    * login
    * maybe see doctors schedule
    * book appointment
    * see lab reports, medications etc...
    * email list
      * on demographic.
    * text the patient etc
    * automated calling

===== Interoperability =====
==== User Workflow ====


==== Must have ====
  * alberta health billing 
  * **Deal breaker** - AB Health labs/ radiology - Risk: this may require some leg work, bureaucracy
  * drug database (lots of pre-existing software solutions)

==== Nice to have / future ====
  * AB Netcare (track labs/discharge)
===== Misc =====

==== User Workflow ====
  * Hardware requirements
  * security, safety, correctness




==== Nice to have / future ====  
  * reporting 
  * fax to pharmacy





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