On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:43:33PM -0800, James Busser wrote: > I understand that in Germany it is possible to generate bar code labels > right in the medical office, They are often pre-generated by the lab and given to the practice but that doesn't make a real difference.
> so that the actual tubes of blood/urine etc > leave the office with an identifier that can reconcile the result(s) to the > original request(s). Yes. > Even that solution would fall down, though, if a > German practitioner can request that a copy of the result be directed to > another doctor outside the practice who is involved in the care of the same > patient... It would have to be done manually. In 99.99% this would happen by faxing a paper copy. > that doctor would have no way (?) to have a copy of the request > in their system. I would assume the lab might be able to re-address results. > There is, therefore, the methodology to develop around unmatched results > that includes identifying if > - the patient exists in the database but was inadequately > identified/matched > - the patient does not (yet) exist in the database but needs to e created > (think: the yet-to-be-seen new referral patient, whose results arrive > before the patient) clin.incoming_data_unmatched > - results received in *apparent* error and - in some jurisdictions - a > responsibility to communicate the error in case the patient would come to > harm (also to help stop receiving some of these results in error) clin.incoming_data_unmatchable Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
