template-obsidian-vault/Vaults/Medical/__Using The Vault.md

title: **Table of Contents**

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Overall Layout

• Dashboard as a starting piont
• Homework for anything that needs to be accomplished related to healthcare
• [Upcoming ]Appointments for tracking info to bring / discuss to appointments
  • Move to Log post-appointment
• Log for tracking notes over time
  • Misc health tracking
  • Appointment notes, post appointment
  • Use date[+time] file name prefixes
• Test Results for tracking test data over time
  • Use date[+time] file name prefixes
• Notes for misc information
  • Emergency contacts
  • Current med layout
  • rx data (glasses, prescription info packets from pharmacy, etc)
  • 'one shot' test results
    • genetic test results
    • mental health assessments that are done 'once'
• _attachments for binary files that are linked on notes
• _attic for data that is no longer applicable
  • treat this as an archive / cold storage

Workflows

• Notes
  • General information capture
  • Add to dashboard if you need a 'quick link'
• [Upcoming ]Appointments
  • Notes for next appointment
  • Appointment / encounter notes
  • Move to Log once 'complete'
• Homework
  • Things 'to do' related to medical / health care
  • Move to Log once fully complete
• Log
  • Tracking by year/month/YYYY-MM-dd.md files
  • Think "Daily Notes"
• Test Results
  • All test results and any data that you may want to search
  • See below for layout and further detail

Definitions

• encounter date
  • for tests
    • when you visit dr for blood draw
    • when you show up for ct/mri scan
  • for dr visits: the date of the dr visit
  • "when you showed up for [thing] being done/performed"
• order date
  • when dr creates order
• result date
  • completion / result date from lab

Key Components of Approach

• eobs optional -- more financial than 'health stuff'
• result file names use encounter date
  • this is the human form of the varied dates
• human readable note properties (front matter)
  • result normal/abnormal tag
  • tags for test name/type/etc
  • encounter date (the human date -- based on dr visit for human search)

Tags

Tag	Color
#encounter	purple
#data	purple
#misc	purple
#note	purple
#research-paper	purple
#to-discuss	red
#to-research	red
#test-result	cyan
#appointment	cyan
#homework	cyan
#log	cyan
#complete	yellow
#with-others	yellow
#other_human	yellow
#symptom_name	magenta
#test_name	magenta
#medical_discipline	green
#er	green
#mh	green
#ph	green
#medical_professional_name	green
#medical_practice	green

Quering Data

• if human search 'fails' -> query csvs accordingly
• queries
  • data aggregation
  • data viz
  • finding stuff thats 'not in' human searches
  • include human searches as summary/detail jumps
• self assessments tracking
  • via test results
  • also added to data csv(s) if ranking how good/bad/etc
• can take csv data from fitness trackers as 'test results'

Data Layout & Folder Structure

test results/
	_raw data/
		test1.csv
			encounter date
			order date
			result date
			result value(s)
			normal range / upper & lower bounds (dedicated columns)
			any 'flags' noted (semi-colon separated or dedicated columns)
			comments (raw text field)
		test2.csv
	_queries/
		data_dive1.md -> queries csv
		data_dive2.md -> queries csv
	test1/
		result1.md -> human readable, linked to pdf stored in attachments
		result2.md -> human readable, linked to pdf stored in attachments
	test2/
		result1.md -> human readable, linked to pdf stored in attachments
		result2.md -> human readable, linked to pdf stored in attachments