Operation Theater Module

Abstract

Managing and scheduling Operation Theater (OT) activities are critical tasks in a hospital. Main objective of this module is to create a more user friendly environment for hospitals to manage their OT activities efficiently. OT scheduling is the most critical task in managing a OT in a hospital. Scheduling always needs to dealt with emergency surgery scheduling, cancellation of surgeries etc. Having a OT module integrated with OpenMRS will gain major benefits for hospitals including efficiently manage hospital resources, optimizing theater schedules, gives an overview for assign surgeons and nurses for each surgery efficiently and etc. Management people can analyze efficiency of OT by past records associate with each OT and also can determine consumption and future need of resources for surgeries.

Project Champions

Harsha Kumara

Mohammad Ullah

Objectives

• 1. Create a new module following Creating Modules (improve the documentation if needed)
  2. Apply for a repository at https://github.com/openmrs and a JIRA project
  3. Create tickets in JIRA for tasks to be completed during GSoC
  4. The one of major function of the module is to enable a interface to efficiently schedule OT activities in each OT in the hospital. (Managing interfaces for scheduling activities will be critical here).
     Scheduling needs to address changes in surgeries such as new additions, cancellations, delayed surgeries, emergencies, etc.
  5. Each surgery should be associate with following details
     
     
     • Surgery date and time.
     • Operation Theater (OT) number of ID.
     • Anesthesia type and Anesthetist Name.
     • Surgeon (Include if there is Assistant surgeon).
     • Theater nurses associate with the surgery (If possible).
     • Mechanism to track pre and postoperative events.
     • Attach any reports associated with surgery (i.e. patient surgery chart, Operative reports - transcription).
     • Managing doctors comments regarding surgery.
     • Special drugs,instruments and materials needed for a operation.
       
       
  6. Build interfaces to view daily OT activities. Also it should be necessary for view OT schedules for past and future days.  
  7. Create interface needed for hospital administrative people for analyze OT activities and efficiency. These interfaces may contains special needs of materials need for upcoming surgeries and consumption of resources in each OT.

Extra Credit

• Using Ajax based intuitive user interfaces
• Design efficient scheduler with user friendly interfaces

Resources

• https://groups.google.com/a/openmrs.org/forum/#!msg/implementers-archive/Vd1JgHhcf5o/r6oLS9gVWdAJ
• Documentation