> What is of concern is the way that the different clinical applications > handle ORU and REF messages. > > Where does an ORU message end up in MD2 for example? > > Unless I am mistaken the ORU ends up in the Results Tab and database > that supports that. > > So if you are using an ORU for a psychiatrist report it will be mixed > in with pathology and imaging results. > > The same with hospital discharge summaries if using ORU as the message > format. > > > > Is this a good thing? > > Will clinicians go looking for that letter from Dr Psychiatrist in > investigations or a discharge summary in investigations? > > > > If a REF message is used it ends up in the letter section of MD2. Is > that where a clinician would expect it to be? >
This is an area where, in my opinion, Best Practice is way ahead of MD ... Best Practice has "Results" tab for pathology and radiology results, "Correspondence out" tab for your outgoing referral letters etc, and "Correspondence in" for received specialists reports and hospital discharge summaries etc. Furthermore, there is a choice of where you would like to file incoming results and correspondence, viz with results or correpondence. MD has "Results" tab, "Letters" tab and "Documents" tab. There is no choice in where incoming results, reports and discharge summaries end up. Hospital discharge summaries (via HealthLink) file into "Results". Specialists letters/ reports file into "Letters" so that all your correspondence out is mixed with this correspondence in. "Documents" tab contains stuff that you scan and photos. I am aware of many MD users and ex-users who have repeatedly requested a change to the "correspondence in" and correspondence out" system. John Mac _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
