VistA technically does NOT have a Clinic file.
What it has is a HOSPITAL LOCATION file (#44).
There is a field named TYPE (#2) which has values:
'C' FOR CLINIC;
'M' FOR MODULE;
'W' FOR WARD;
'Z' FOR OTHER LOCATION;
'N' FOR NON-CLINIC STOP;
'F' FOR FILE AREA;
'I' FOR IMAGING;
'OR' FOR OPERATING ROOM;
Generally speaking, if a location in the hospital must be
defined, it will be created in the HOSPITAL LOCATION file.
This covers generalized locations as well, for example,
If Dr. Welby can have patients scheduled in his morning
clinic where the appointments are 15 minutes long,
and his afternoon clinic where the appointments are 30
minutes long, and his new-patient clinic where appointments
are an hour long, there will be three HOSPITAL LOCATIONs,
all of which would have TYPE="C" defined.
If a location in the hospital has sub-parts (modules) then
there will be a separate entry in the HOSPITAL LOCATION
file for each with TYPE="M" defined for each. (though
I'm not seeing an example of this on the test system)
If a HOSPITAL LOCATION is TYPE="W", it is representing
a ward, however, there is also a WARD LOCATION file (#42)
that must be populated as well. Note that currently,
a ward in the VA is very rarely a single room with
many beds in it. Wards must be tied to ROOM-BED entries,
and a given ROOM-BED may actually be in more than one
ward. For example Surgery and Medicine may share the
same physical beds, but have separated wards for the
Gains and Losses report.
If a HOSPITAL LOCATION is TYPE="Z", it may represent
a plethora of locations in the hospital. Some obvious
places are the Tumor Registry, the Reception Area,
the Release of Information Office, the Morgue, the
Gift Shop, the Office of the Chief of Staff, the
(paper) Records Management office, and more.
If a HOSPITAL LOCATION is TYPE="N", it stands for
a location that is not considered part of the
medical workload "clinic stop" reporting. I don't
think this is used in this way very often. There
is a different way of marking a clinc as not
being having a clinic stop, ie: the field:
NON-COUNT CLINIC? (Y OR N) {field #2502)
The HOSPITAL LOCATIONs with TYPE="F" are locations
where files are stored, and are increasingly fewer
as electronic records are more widespread.
Note these may refer to places "off station" away
from the physical buildings of the hospital.
If a HOSPITAL LOCATION has TYPE="I", it is a place
such as the MRI Center, or an X-RAY location.
This type of HOSPITAL LOCATION is used by the
Radiology package.
Finally, HOSPITAL LOCATIONs with TYPE="OR" are
used by the surgery package.
David
713-791-1414 ext 6116
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> Hi:
>
> Does anybody knows the definition of a clinic in Vista?
> Is it more than a ward? What kind of clinics can be defined?
>
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