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Re: How to Track a Patient across multiple org units for the same program

 

Hi Ola,

This is most useful. We have been testing with a single superuser login and the same user trying to register the same patient across orgunits. We will try your suggestion with a couple of users profiles. 

Thanks a bunch.

Regards,

Busoye

On 28 Aug 2013, at 17:25, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Busoye,
> 
> If provided the authority to do so the user at the second facility can search and find the person and open the person dashboard. There the user can continue endring data for new stages in the same enrollment or enroll into the program again (if the previous enrolment was completed).
> 
> By authority I refer to the authorities you can assign to user roles in DHIS 2. On the phone now and can't look up the exact name of this authority,  but think it's called something like 'Search Persons in all facilities'.
> 
> There is also a 'Search Person in User facilities' that limit the search to the subtree of the orgunit hierarchy the user can see (has been assigned), if e.g the user is located at a district office supporting multiple facilities or I guess at a hospital supporting multiple words.
> 
> Being able to track individuals over time AND across facilities (orgunits) is supported and one of the key use cases for Tracker. 
> 
> Ola
> ------
> 
> On 28 Aug 2013 09:51, "Adebusoye Anifalaje" <busoye@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Not sure how the patient tracker handles patient registration in a program that cuts across multiple orgunits. This is a scenario:
> 
> - Patient is admitted into a ward (e.g medical). 
> 
> 	 a) This is where the patient details are registered and enrolled into the midnight census program
> 		-Admissions is the first stage of the program
> 
> 	 b)  Patient stays x number of nights in this ward 
> 
> 	 c) Patient is then separated e.g. transferred internally… 
> 		- Separation is the second event (program stage) 
> 		- Inpatient days can be calculated by ward 
> 
> - If patient is transferred to another speciality within the same ward the event is just repeated i.e. admissions and separation… 
> 
> - However, if the transfer is to a different ward, we have to choose a different org unit. At this stage, the patient is already registered so we don't want to have to register the patient again. We would want to 
> 
> 	a) Choose new org unit 
> 	b) Find patient details
> 	b) Enrol into the same program 
> 
> - Maybe I just don't understand the patient module enough but at the moment it seems like you can't track the same patient across multiple orgunits for the same program… 
> 
> 
> Would appreciate if anyone can throw some light on how to do this.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Busoye
> 
> 
> 
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