"Order Tracking" OWA/module

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Good discussion on today’s design forum (notes here). Here are some quick takeaways (I believe @mogoodrich is going to provide a summary).

Introduce Order.fulfillerStatus now:

  • received - order fulfiller has received the request
  • exception - an error or exception occurred during processing
  • completed - the request has been completed by fulfiller

Consider also introducing Order.status (aligning with FHIR status fields):

  • draft - unsigned, work in progress
  • active - order that may be acted upon
  • completed - all activity related to the request has been completed
  • stopped - request terminated

Some additional thoughts during the discussion:

  • We haven’t yet modeled how we would handle orders needing cosign.
  • Verbal orders will be deferred. Would be active and probably have a separate property to track authorizing signature.
  • We would not plan on supporting on hold or suspended (risk of medical errors, encourage stop and re-write instead).
  • We would not plan on implementing FHIR’s cancelled or entered in error statuses (close enough to OpenMRS voiding).
  • We wouldn’t support unknown status (would use null for this if needed later).

More details in the notes.