Choosing an episode will simply be a matter of clicking the appropriate title from a list of episodes, or by a 'drag and drop'-like manoeuvre connecting one contact to another. This kind of data does belong to the episode, but does not arise during a GP's consultation. The consequence of this is that a 'partial contact' is not limited to a doctor-patient contact. It is in fact every contact between a healthcare professional in the practice and the EPR in which new information is being recorded. The system is able to provide the user with a list of current episodes.
Every episode has a title.
By looking at this list the doctor gets an overview of all the health care problems that have been presented to the practice in the past. It is obvious that after some time this list may become unwieldy. Therefore it is possible to filter this list. Hence, actively closing an episode by the user is not necessary. Contrary to that, the user can decide that a certain episode is very important and override this automatic mechanism.