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We have the physicians and their staff call the medical records department and have given the staff there two tools 1- the OE consult routine which will work if the patient has an active account. This creates an associates that lasts for up to 90 days ( parameter) If the doc signs into to PCI and reviews the patient within the 90 days a permanent association is created. If not, it drops off as you know. We have a CDS attached to the OE procedure with various NPR's written off the answers. 2- PCI maintenance, security options, patient security. The MR staff can create a permanent association here. We have a small physician base so our MR staff pretty much know which docs use PCI, which ones don't, which ones to give a consult or permanent association. Our rational is they are the ones who grant access to the paper chart and they should be the ones who grant access to the electronic chart too. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy Carman Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:58 AM To: Meditech-l Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Magic-Physician office staff utilizing PCI All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== We have several off-site physician offices connected to our Meditech system. They use PCI to view information on their physicians' patients and print info to set up their office charts. But, for the most part, the physicians in these offices do not use PCI, just the office staff. The office staff users are set up in the MIS User dictionary to be restricted to patients linked to physicians in the practice/group (pg 3 MIS User dictionary). The issue that repeatedly surfaces is when they have a new patient being referred to the office that they have never seen before, and the physicians in the practice have no link to these patients in PCI. So, the restricted office staff users are unable to bring up the patient in PCI since no link exists between the patient and the physician. The Self-Assign feature is not an option for us since 99.9% of the physicians in these practices are not going to get into PCI and add a patient to their list so their staff can see the patient data in PCI. They just do not have time for this. Unrestricting the office staff users so they can access any patient in our database in not an option due to HIPAA. We did have one practice that would call IS and we would emulate the physician and add the patient to the physician's patient list. But we do not want to continue with this and start receiving calls from multiple offices. And...the office staff does not like calling every time they need to see a new patient in PCI! Has anyone out there figured out how to meet the needs of the restricted physician office staff users in regards to these new referral patients? Thanks for any advice you can offer in regards to this issue. This is a very big problem for us....and it gets bigger with every physician office we grant access to...they all want to access patient info on new referral patients!!!! _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
