Overview
This module provides the ability for users to define their own, customized patient summaries. It provides a clean separation between the underlying data to present and the actual format of the resulting summary, enabling users to create several different output documents depending on the circumstance. For example, on output summary might be appropriate for a mobile device, another might be for display in-line on the patient dashboard, and yet another might be a printable PDF.
The patientsummary module builds upon (and depends upon) the reporting module, leveraging the power of that framework for computing data and rendering output. Although we are working to provide a user experience that hides as much of the underlying complexity of the reporting module as possible, there still may be areas where the reporting module user interface is used to perform a particular activity. We expect to minimize this in future versions of the module.
The patientsummary module version has undergone a major re-write in the 2.0 release line, and some of the initial requirements behind it can be found here. The 1.x release line of this module (available in svn under http://svn.openmrs.org/openmrs-modules/patientsummary/) contains very limited functionality that provides a single hard-coded HIV patient summary, mainly targeted at the PIH Rwanda Implementation. The 2.0 release is not intending to provide backwards-compatibility to the 1.0 version, but rather to provide the framework within which the 1.0 version can be re-defined using new configurable constructs. Stay tuned for more details on plans for merging these two versions over time.
Getting Started
Building a Patient Summary in 3 simple steps
- Define the data points that you want to make available. You can utilize either Person-based or Patient-based data.
- Define a Patient Summary Report Definition containing the relevant data points
- Define a Patient Summary Template that defines how your patient summary should look
Viewing a Patient Summary
There are a couple of options:
- Preview your summary as you author it
- Preview your summary using the preview page
- Enable display of your patient summary via the patient dashboard, and view it there
Reporting bugs and requesting new features
All new feature requests and bug reports can be raised in [JIRA|https://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/PS}.
Getting involved
If you wish to check out the source code and/or contribute, the code can be found in github (http:/github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-patientsummary)