RE: [MEDITECH-L] Lab order cancellations

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:01:41 -0700 

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Maybe I should have waited until next week to reduce the number of annoying "Out Of Office" autoreplys.
Anyway.....
I guess further clarification of my predicament is needed. We have used Shirley's print rule for several years and it works well for orders
that reach an ORD (LOG in OE) status, then are cancelled.
 
The problem with an autocancel (like ordering 2 of the same test within the duplicate order timeframe), is it never generates a cancel status
because it never reached an ordered (LOG) status. From OE, the only way to know something is autocancelled is to re-enter the patient account to
view orders, or print an OE Order log periodically. I was hoping to find a way to identify orders flagged as autocancelled and be able to produce
a printout in real time.
 
Thanks, Paul

Paul J. Goedicke, CLT(HHS)
Administrative Laboratory Director
Fort Madison Community Hospital
5445 Avenue O
Fort Madison, IA 52627-0174
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Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Lab order cancellations

Here is what we do.  I created an OE print format that will print on a thermal label printer.  This is attached (easy to script in) to all procedures in the OE procedure dictionary that the lab wants notice of a cancellation on.  The format has a print rule, which is simply:

IF{[f ord can sts] [f do print];

   [f do not print]};

So this label prints immediately when the status of the OE order is cancelled.  It works out better in the work flow to have this print to the label printer that the phlebs monitor, rather than having a sheet of paper print at some distant laser printer that they don’t usually check.

Shirley Schoberg, Clinical Analyst

Samaritan Health Services, Albany, OR

 

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