Bug #712
openFertility Department Needs a Couple-Level Consultation Screen
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Description
Summary
In the Fertility/IVF department, consultations currently appear to use the standard individual-patient consultation screen, with the husband and the wife registered and consulted as two separate, unrelated patients. The ask is for a dedicated consultation screen for Fertility that treats the couple as one unit — their history, investigations and treatment plan tracked and viewed together, rather than as two disconnected patient journeys.
Impact
Fertility/IVF treatment is inherently couple-based: diagnosis, investigations (e.g. semen analysis for the husband, ovarian reserve/hormonal workup for the wife) and treatment cycle decisions depend on both partners’ combined clinical picture. Treating them as entirely separate patients makes it hard for the doctor to see the full couple’s history in one place during a consultation, increases the risk of fragmented or missed information, and adds manual work cross-referencing two separate records every visit.
Environment
Clinq HMS, Fertility/IVF department consultation workflow. Reported by description; not yet tied to a specific tenant or screen with a live walkthrough.
Steps to Reproduce
Current behavior (not a crash, a design gap): 1. Register a husband and wife as two separate OPD patients under the Fertility/IVF department.
2. Open a consultation for either one.
3. The consultation screen shows only that individual’s own demographics, history and investigations — there is no way to view or manage both partners together as a couple from one screen.
Expected vs Actual
Expected: Fertility department should have a dedicated consultation screen that treats a husband and wife (couple) as one linked unit — a single consultation view showing both partners’ demographics, history, investigations and treatment plan together, instead of requiring the doctor to open and cross-reference two separate individual patient records.
Actual: Husband and wife are each currently handled as fully independent patients, with no couple-level linkage or combined consultation view.
Notes
This is an enhancement/design request rather than a defect — the system is not failing to do something it was built to do; it currently handles every patient individually by design, and couple-level handling for Fertility does not appear to exist yet. Flagging this since it’s a gap rather than broken behavior.