A program is a program of care which a patient can be enrolled in, for example "HIV care and treatment" or "TB care" or "maternity care". Within a program, one or more workflows can be set up. For example, "patient overall status" could be a workflow, or "pregnancy status" could be another. Within a workflow, a patient has one state at any one time, and can move from one state to another over time. For example in the "patient overall status" workflow, a patient could first be "attending clinic" then "transferred out" then "attending clinic" again (if they were transferred back), then "died". A full history of states of a patient is stored, but only the current state of a patient within a workflow is normally visible.

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How-To

To set up a program:

• Set up your program as a concept (see administering concepts for details)

• Click "Manage programs" in the administration menu

• Click "Add a new program"

• Click "Select", search for your program concept and click on it

• Click "Save"

To set up a workflow:

• Set up your workflow as a concept (see administering concepts for details)

• Click "Manage programs" in the administration menu

• Click the program you want to put your workflow in

• Under workflows, click "Add", search for your workflow concept and click on it

• Click "Save"

To set up states:

• Set up your states as concepts (see administering concepts for details)

• Click "Manage programs" in the administration menu

• Click the workflow you want to set up states for

• Click "Add", search for your state concept and click on it. Repeat for the other states.

• Choose at least one state as an "initial" state. The first state a patient has within a workflow must be an initial state

• You may choose one or more states as a "terminal" state meaning that when the patient enters that state, they are no longer in the program.

• Click "Save"

Once you have set up programs, workflows and states, a patient can be enrolled in programs and moved between states in workflows in the program, from the patient dashboard.

FAQ

• What privilege is required to add patients to a program?
  Create a privilege called Manage Patient Programs and add this to a role. Any users with this role can add or edit patient program statuses.