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Comment on 'pih, baobab, openmrs, x-forwarding, mateme and you' by Jeff Rafter

2010-01-15T20:50:37Z

The default.profile hack definitely works. This is included in the firefox-daemon repo, and somewhere along the line it was changed so it was easier to edit (I might have been responsible for that because I wanted to change browser privileges). What I really would love to see is a hack to update touch.coordinates from the server based on machine mac address or something. That way we could remotely calibrate.

Comment on 'some background on windows 7 starter' by Jeff Rafter

2010-01-15T20:48:11Z

Yeah, this would be Ubuntu if there wasn't some very lame software that was windows only. Now, I know I could have run virtualbox or something, but on a netbook? It seemed crazy.

Comment on 'pih, baobab, openmrs, x-forwarding, mateme and you' by Mike McKay

2010-01-15T20:37:25Z

If your router could resolve the domain name "bart" to your server, then you could eliminate dnsmasq and not have to disable dhcp from your router . Some routers can do this, like DD-WRT ones.

Also, I think that by changing: /home/firefox/default.profile/prefs.js you aren't going to get what you want.

The firefox daemon unzips a prebuilt firefox profile into the home directory and then uses that as the profile. So you need to unzip the included firefox profile and tweak that, then rezip it.

Or maybe that's been changed and I need to git with the program.

Thanks for the writeup. I will add a link back to this from the READMEs for firefox-daemon and baobab linux on github.

Comment on 'some background on windows 7 starter' by Mike McKay

2010-01-11T18:50:55Z

Hilarity. It seems like Microsoft has now resorted to outright war with it's users. On the Ubuntu tip, it seems like using one of the Windows themes for Ubuntu would probably go a long way towards giving the ignorant their opium.

Comment on 'suggesting prescriptions' by Jeff Rafter

2009-08-02T17:48:06Z

Hey Zach!

I think that the suggestion on changing the label to "Common prescriptions for this diagnosis" is really great. In terms of harmonizing the prescriptions with the guidelines, you have actually hit on a pretty big limitation: namely, HIV/AIDS or TB are not diagnosed every visit. Because it is an chronic illness, I suspect we will need to have something that correlates with the programs that patient is part of. For example "Common prescriptions for patients in the ART program". Once that connection is made then theoretically once the guidelines had been followed, the right prescriptions would automatically float to the top of the list. Of course, if the prescribing behavior is not matching the guidelines to begin with then you have a twofold problem.

Comment on 'suggesting prescriptions' by Zach

2009-08-02T14:43:33Z

Awesome work! This looks like it will totally improve efficiency for creating prescriptions.

Thanks so much for blogging it! Baobab is very fortunate to have a handful of influential bloggers to share what we do and generate interest and credibility in the organization. It is also very helpful for understanding how prescribing works in BART. Would you consider pasting your blog post into a new page in the BART wiki on github or elsewhere?

In the section called "But wait, it might be wrong!" you mention that it takes "someone with clinical experience to know if the suggestions are right or wrong." I have two responses to this:

To eliminate the risk of having the "wrong" prescriptions appearing, consider using a label like "Popular prescriptions for this diagnosis" or "Common prescriptions for this diagnosis". This would reduce the implication of the displayed prescriptions being recommended and could more accurately describe what the list actually is (if in fact the list is only displaying the most common prescriptions and not being manipulated to rank more appropriate prescriptions higher on the list).
It would be ideal if the suggested prescriptions could be harmonized with Malawi's ART guidelines. How likely would it be that a popular prescription for a diagnosis would conflict with the recommended treatment in the guidelines? It seems unlikely but not impossible. I'm planning to do an analysis of Malawi's ART guidelines that will look at the feasibility of using prescription records and other data to determine if clinicians are following the guidelines. I am getting more and more familiar with the guidelines all the time, so I would be interested to help look at how we could establish measures for comparing the prescriptions with the recommendations in the guidelines, in order to detect where prescribing behaviour does not align with the guidelines.

Jeff++

Comment on 'suggesting prescriptions' by Jeff Rafter

2009-08-01T17:39:14Z

Thanks for the comments Andreas!

Variable dose really fits the description you have here. If you choose variable dose you are not asked "Dose strength" and "Frequency" instead you are asked "Morning Dose (in mg)", "Afternoon Dose (in mg)", "Evening Dose (in mg)", "Night Dose (in mg)". This is how you specify dose strength variations within the day. I can upload some screenshots for this section too.

Dosing schedules and regimens (which would involve multiple drugs) are not really covered here and we may add them soon.

The rudimentary plan for determining consumption is much simpler than the existing plan. We will add a dispensed boolean to each drug order to know if it was actually given. We will never allow for drugs to be entered as given unless there is a corresponding prescription. This will simplify some of the logic when it comes to counting pills later.

It makes me wonder if we should cache the remaining pills (that the patient started with) there as well.

Comment on 'suggesting prescriptions' by Andreas

2009-07-31T14:26:28Z

This looks very interesting. I think you have come a long way from the time when we started working on the logic of handling prescriptions and dispensing (for the ART system). 3 initial comments / suggestions:

Re-label 'variable dose' to 'non-standard dose'. Variable implies that the drug should be taken at varying intervals / strength.
For some drugs (such as paediatric ART), the morning dose might be different from the evening dose. This adds another layer of complexity, but will be needed to meet the needs of the prescriber. I guess this goes back to an earlier approach where the schedule and each dose could be specified independently.
I would definitely advocate using coded dosing schedules. Remember that for programs such as ART and TB, we need to have this information represented in the data model in a way that allows for easy calculation of drug consumption.

Comment on 'the automatic flushing system' by Mike McKay

2009-06-13T16:04:05Z

Skateboard story LOL.

Comment on 'the automatic flushing system' by Mike McKay

2009-06-13T10:54:30Z

RSS that shizzzle so one can podcast it... BAM.

Comment on 'github-gem-build' by Jeff Rafter

2009-05-20T06:15:46Z

I should also thank tekkub from the #github channel for pointing out a couple of early fixes. Thanks tekkub!

Comment on 'github has an apps platform' by Jeff Rafter

2009-05-16T00:27:53Z

Thanks!

Comment on 'github has an apps platform' by Justin Blake

2009-05-15T03:43:46Z

That is hot shit. Brilliant idea.

Comment on 'github has an apps platform' by viking

2009-05-14T22:53:02Z

Great job!

Comment on 'github has an apps platform' by nap

2009-05-14T22:31:21Z

you rock, dude.