[Chandler-dev] medical scheduling application

[Grant Baillie]

On 12 Aug, 2008, at 12:33, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Congratulations on the release of Chandler Desktop 1.0. I wouldl  
> like you
> input (even a short note) on a potential use case for chandler.  
> Please also
> tell me if my views don't fit your vision.
>
> I am looking for a solution to schedule patients in a doctor's  
> office. So this
> needs something like appointment types with preconfigured durations,
> appointment times for individual doctors and the likes.
>
> Is chandler potentially fit for this at all or is it easier to  
> attempt to
> build something like this from scratch ?

Hi, Sebastian

It's certainly possible to use Chandler in this way: for example, you  
could have a collection (calendar) per doctor, and use the calendar to  
schedule appointments.

Preconfigured durations would require extending chandler in some way:  
The currently supported way is to create a plugin. The most  
straightforward plugin (i.e. one that doesn't require you to learn a  
bunch of wxPython and/or the current UI architecture) would create new  
quick entry commands, so for example you could type in the quick entry  
field "/short Pat Patient @ 2:15PM" to make a 10 minute appointment.

Longer term (i.e. over the next 4-6 months) we will be working on a  
more lightweight, extensible and unit tested/testable rearchitecture  
of Chandler (details yet to be finalized/posted). If you are going the  
custom app route, then that could be useful to you, although it will  
be a while before it is deployable (e.g. has robust persistence). If  
you have python coding skills and are interested in helping out with  
that, let us know :).

Cheers,
--Grant