2022-06-13 TAC: Order Templates to Support Drug Orders

[burke (Burke Mamlin)]

Agenda for Monday (13 June): Order Templates to Support Drug Orders

Where: om.rs/zoomtac

When: Monday at 4pm UTC / 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm CEST / 7pm EAT / 9:30pm IST

Background from this post:

@eudson

Hi all following this talk post and other many conversations we had on TAC calls, hackathons and other forums we all think it’s time to move forward with backend support for Order Templates.

I’ve managed to make the order basket show some data (linked to the backend and the example JSON on esm-medication) as you can see on the image bellow:

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As we can see, an Order Template is a combination of a dosageUnit , route, frequency and commonDosage

Looking forward to hear from you and to get this ball rolling.

And this earlier post:

@burke

To summarize from our 2022-03-30 TAC call, we reviewed these aspects of drug orders:

Area	Example	Description
Concept	amoxicillin	Active ingredient (the drug the provider wants the patient to get)
Drug	amoxicillin 500 mg capsule	The form of the drug available (e.g., stock item)
Order template	amoxicillin [250 mg,500 mg] [by mouth,by feeding tube] [three times daily,four times daily]
(defaults underscored)	How the drug can be (or is typically) ordered.
Order sets	* Ear infection
amoxicillin 500 mg by mouth three times daily

• Pneumonia amoxicillin 1000 mg by mouth three times daily|Predefining a set of orders appropriate for a specific use case (multiple drug regimens, treating specific conditions, etc.)|

We decided that we need to introduce order templates as a first class citizen within OpenMRS. We’d like to model these aligned with FHIR’s model. A workaround for existing/previous versions might be to introduce these order templates within one catch-all order set (since order set member does have a space for order template), but we ultimately want order template to be a first class citizen that can be associated with a drug outside of order sets.

/cc @eudson @mseaton

[dkayiwa (Daniel Kayiwa)]

In the past, we had these order template proposals: [TRUNK-2379] API support for order set members with multiple dosing options - OpenMRS Issues