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This screen needs to have some type of order, is anyone working on anything. We need it to be date/time stamped or entry order.
Example: A patient says they did pre medicate for todays appointment.
5 extractions are done
Note put in about patient making appt with general dentist and followup apt
3 RX added and last one has notes of the pharmacy they were called into.

How it shows up after leaving the patient chart then going back in:
3 RX
2 Extractions
Note about appt
3 extractions
Patient confirmed pre medicating.

This can be very confusing: why does the patient confirm pre medicating after everything was done. RX called in before the appt etc..

Any thoughts?

Easier said than done. Many many hours has gone into the part of the code that orders the rows. For some types, dates include times. For others they store dates only. Enabling date/time on each type will be complex and require extensive debugging and UI work. That is honestly not something that I can trust anyone else to do. Too much risk of introducing bugs.

The solution we plan first is to let procedure code notes all flow into one "clinical note" for the day. Also categories for autonotes. Both of those things should help with organization without any risk of introducing bugs.

Yes, we looked at the code already, very complex. We are just getting more and more complaints about it. Seems like staff are missing things already done by another staff member and requesting it again or going over it again with the patients and looking foolish. Any modifications will be a great help i beleive. Maybe if all the comm are held together they could at least be in time order.