While unifying the Service Queues visit tabs onto the patient chart’s shared visit summary (O3-5763), the queue’s inline visit-note widget was replaced by the chart’s read-only Notes tab. Here, we agreed to keep the ability to write a note, and it’s back as a Visit note form launcher but that widget predates two other note mechanisms, so I’d like input before settling on it.
The options:
- Visit note (
esm-patient-notes-app) — encounter-backed, carries diagnoses, visit-scoped. A durable clinical record. - Patient sticky note (
esm-patient-notes-app) — a standalone obs, patient-scoped, one current note edited in place. - Ward patient notes (
esm-ward-app) — obs written via an encounter, visit-scoped, edited in place with history.
Today it’s the visit note, same as before this change — the button opens the chart’s visit note form, which writes an encounter of the visit-note type with the clinical note and diagnoses.
Which of the three should it be?
Related: #2600, chart#3509.
