Patient Flags

These flags are a clinical decision support to highlight important aspects of a patient's treatment

The flags use the traffic light analogy as follows:

  • Green – information for an upcoming e.g., Upcoming appointment, Due for Viral Load

  • Orange – warning, prepare to take action e.g., Missed appointment

  • Red – take action now e.g., Lost, Lost to Followup, Overdue for Viral Load

The patient flags are:

  1. Due for 1st DNA PCR (green)

  2. Due for 1st Viral Load (green)

  3. Due for 2nd DNA PCR (green)

  4. Due for Rapid Test (green)

  5. Due for Routine Viral Load (green)

  6. Lost(red)

  7. Lost to Followup (red)

  8. Missed appointment (orange)

  9. Overdue for 1st DNA PCR (red)

  10. Overdue for First Viral Load (red)

  11. Overdue for Rapid Test (red)

  12. Overdue for Routine Viral Load (red)

  13. Overdue for 2nd DNA PCR (red)

  14. Transferred Out Patient (orange)

  15. Un-suppressed Viral Load (red)

  16. Upcoming appointment (green)

Disabling Patient Flags

Depending on the facility needs, not all the patient flags will be relevant, so the steps below provide the capability of disabling unused flags which will also improve the performance of the patient dashboard

  1. On the home page click the Legacy System Administration button

    Legacy System Administration

  2. On the administration page, click the Settings link

    Settings

  3. Select Ugandaemr in the left-hand menu to display the UgandaEMR settings

  4. In the "Patientflags Disabled Flags" text field enter the names of the patient flags you want to disable separated by a comma (,)

  5. Restart your computer

Troubleshooting Tips

Module cannot start due to error creating patientflags_displaypoint

See message below Error creating table patientflags_displaypoint

Fix

  1. Open Heidi and delete the patientflags_displaypoint table

  2. Click Start All to start all the modules

Module cannot start create patientflags_tag_role

The error message displayed when starting the module is

The root cause of this that the character set for the patientflags_tag_role table, utf8, is different from the role table.

Run the script below to change all the tables in the database to UTF8

Aijar cannot start because the patientflags_tag_role table is missing

Symptom

There is an error starting the aijar module with the following text in the stack trace

Resolution

Run the following SQL script on your database

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