Essentially everything related to the patient’s time is put under a single encounter. Does this mean we will deprecate visits? Also, how does this work in the inpatient setting - single encounter for the the entire admission? One useful thing about the multiple encounter approach was that it was relatively easy to get grouped data. I think we still will need to a lot of effort to make it easy to get the right data.
Also, another question occurred to me: are we removing form_id from the data encounter data model? In the above, presumably you can have multiple forms per encounter. Where does the form_id get stored ? a new table form_encounter_map?