Requested Feature - Patient Colors

[dwkrueger]

I would like a color preference for showing patients with different status. ie Inactive to be say red, patient to be black, deceased to be green etc. I have had this request from my staff so that they do not inadvertently use an inactive patient for scheduling. Which also brings the 2nd feature which is to limit what a regular user can do with an inactive patient -- that may require more thought thoug.

Dan

[jordansparks]

Where would the colors show? In the patient select window?

[dwkrueger]

My initial thought is in the patient selection dialog. This is where the most errors in selecting an inactive patient occur.

Of course the other places that colors could be used include
Application title bar
Ledger
Patient Information

[jordansparks]

In the patient select window, deceased and archived patients already do not show unless you intentionally check the box. So the only problem I really see is if you select an inactive patient. I would support the use of a dark red color in that grid to indicate inactive, deceased, and archived. I can't think of a good reason to make this a customizable color or to have more than one color.

[dwkrueger]

That sounds good. On the same thought -- It would be nice to restrict access to inactive, deceased, or archived patients. Then only a manager would be able to add charge items, place claims, etc change status. But for now the color would be nice.