2012-03-30 Lab Meeting

Date and Time: March 30, 2012; 5pm IST

Participants: Nathan, Dan, Roger

Objective: Review progress of Lab module, thoughts on GSoC, UI/UX Progress, Tying back-end and front-end together

ToDos

Roger: finish working on Objects (expose objects and write unit tests), aiming for mid-April completion

Notes

Management of New Contributors
- 3 new contributors have set up lab environment
- Jianhua making great progress, has 1 bug fix already completed and in need of review
Breakdown of Work
- lab-order likely to be last part to come through; sub-class of OpenMRS order
- Objects
  - expose and unit test
- Custom Views
  - expose specific information needed by front end, and do all logic/processing to combine info on the back end (minimize REST calls)
- Lab Reports
- Lab Management
  - Need a good dashboard for approval
  - Need good status display: how many specimens awaiting each department
- Lab Results
UI/UX
- John Anzelc has committed to get involved more regularly with lab module ui development
- Lab Result entry screen
  - needs to be complex and handle a diversity of types of results
  - Who tested, what time ... links back to actual lab result with all of its details
GSoC
- mentoring projects ... as JSS, as OpenMRS?? --> Move Lab Admin pages, Lab Reports projects to OpenMrs space
- selecting students... feedback on their applications?
Tying Backend and Frontend together
- "Reading" is simpler
  - Result from another lab - biopsy tests, offsite tests... only require "reading" of data
- "Writing" observations is more complex
- Landing Page
  - when you login, on landing page of "lab" module...
    - register specimen, report a test, prepare a sample, search (among these: sample collection, microscopy, etc)
- InOut.xls ... validation, required inputs