Affected users: Primarily nursing staff and healthcare professionals conducting prenatal follow-ups.
Task affected: Reviewing the patient's current pregnancy status during consultations or phone triage. This affects the global view of the Medical Summary.
Impact: High frequency. Currently, nurses must manually recalculate the gestational age (GA) during every interaction, which is tedious, time-consuming, and increases the risk of clinical calculation errors.
Current state: Users have to navigate through previous medical notes or specific pregnancy modules to find the last recorded date and then perform a manual calculation to determine the current GA and EDD. There is no persistent, real-time indicator in the patient header.
Competition consideration: Most modern EMRs with obstetrics modules display the current GA prominently to ensure clinical safety and workflow efficiency.
This was also requested by Dr Peter at nhc
to be able to view or calculate the gestational age without having to open a new form and add a new subsequent visit