8/13/2019 Vision Document for Allergies (EMR)
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Allergies Vision Document
Allergies should be categorized i.e. whether it is Drug Allergy
or Food Allergy orEnvironmental Allergy.
We need to give provision for entering the Allergy Name (Drug
Allergy/FoodAllergy/Environmental Allergy). Please note that it
should be Ajax-Search.
Here each Allergy of Drug or Food or Environmental should be a
coded value meansshould come from proper database.
Drug Allergy should come from Drug Database. Food and
Environmental Allergies should come from ICD database.
Whatever we enter in Allergy Textbox, for each of this allergy,
we need to give provisionfor documenting more detail related to it
like Severity, Status, Reaction Type, Reaction
Description, Onset, Recorded Date, Notes, etc.
Severity, we can give below options for selection: Very Mild
Mild Moderate Severe Life-threatening
The Status should be Active or Inactive. We need to give
provision for documenting what type of Reaction the patient get
specific to Allergy and also note that we should not restrict to
one reaction, it can be
multiple so that need to give provision for documenting more
than one reaction to
each allergy. It should also be Ajax-Search, the reactions
should come from the
database in which where we have created frequent list of
reactions.
Reaction Description - If Physician want to document more
information related toReaction Type, he/she can utilize this
'Reaction Description' section and it is not
mandatory.
Onset (Start Date) has below options, physician can select
either one of those. Unknown Adulthood Childhood Date (We will
provide a calendar to select exact or approximate date)
Recorded Date - Date of Recording should be automatically
populated by thesystem.
Notes - If any additional information physician may want to
document, he can utilizethis 'Notes' section and it should be
Multiline.
We should be in a position to Delete or Update or Cancel the
Allergy till it not linked toany encounter.
There are some scenarios like patient may have more than one
allergy so that we needto give provision for documenting multiple
allergies and all of these should be
maintained in a proper order.
