I just reviewed the older thread Conditions List for Bahmni from 2017 – yeah, that got pretty messy. I think the way that @mogoodrich framed it today makes sense.
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Other than audit-trail entries, the condition is a single record that sometimes can be modified as status and onset/end dates change.
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With record to Active/History-Of/Inactive, the way we talked about them in 2017 implied that they really mean “Active and Important”/“Inactive and Important”/“Inactive and Unimportant”. That’s one reasonable option, and the words, while technically incorrect, actually make sense to users (just like “Allergies” is the best word even though not technically correct). The other approach, perhaps simpler, is just to have Active and Inactive status and include them all on the display, perhaps with Inactive ones at the bottom, and let the clinicians recategorize them whenever they wish.
Practically speaking, most condition lists aren’t too long to view [unless they are auto-filled with every encounter diagnosis] and nobody spends time recategorizing them anyway.