ajperezcrespo wrote on Friday, July 07, 2006:
13 Bed Hospital, 2 Branch Offices, an emergency room, and a clinic.
Well over 1k records in hospital alone.
Currently in Phase 1
Phase 1: Limited training and use.
Phase 2: Limited Billing and testing.
Phase 3: Live to all facilities all employees
sunsetsystems wrote on Friday, July 07, 2006:
Excellent! Will all facilities be sharing one database?
Drop me a note if you need any help.
ajperezcrespo wrote on Friday, July 07, 2006:
Yes they will.
Infact the doctors just rotate their schedules to be at different facilities on different days.
FYI serveral workstations are using OpenSuSe 10.1 with appamor and kprofile to keep the users compliant and out of touble.
Alfonso
markleeds wrote on Friday, July 07, 2006:
That’s great.
That is an area that I am not getting experience in right now. Multiple offices and multiple practitioners.
Share any issues and problems that come up.
Good luck!
ajperezcrespo wrote on Saturday, July 08, 2006:
Let me begin sharing:
1) The major headache is the fact that a couple of the practitioners frequently change their schedules.
2) Current paper records are stored in 4 different locations.
3) Some patients have multiple records. For example a patient who was hospitalized last year might come into the emergency ward (at 3am when the records room is closed) and have a new record created for him.
4 ) Reception has to ask the patient if they have a file, and if so, get in touch with archives and pull the file. If the patient is new No Problem.
5) Record numbers cannot be autoassigned and must begin on the last known file number to avoid having multiple patients with the same ID.
sunsetsystems wrote on Saturday, July 08, 2006:
Any special reason why changing schedules is a problem?
OpenEMR supports an external alphanumeric patient ID, the "pubpid". This is what you can enter into the new patient form or demographics form; it is not the same as the PID (which is strictly numeric). It is useful to put the paper chart ID here.
ajperezcrespo wrote on Saturday, July 08, 2006:
They don’t always inform the schedule changes to the gals.
Ya lost me on the alphnum pubid. How so?
Alfonso
sunsetsystems wrote on Saturday, July 08, 2006:
pubpid is just the column name in the patient_data table that corresponds to the patient ID in the demographics form. You can put your paper chart ID there.
ajperezcrespo wrote on Saturday, July 08, 2006:
Ah…gotcha
But chart IDs are already numeric.