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Minnie, we're Magic 5.5. We use SCH for scheduling OR procedures, including all of our GI procedures, including the related preops, and we also use SCH for any scheduled outpatient procedures. The prior system (until May of this year) was simply black appointment books. While efficient within the OR office, this wasn't always the best for easy communication with the nursing staff, when necessary. In SCH, we have resource groups for OR, Outpatient Procedure (OP PROC), GI, and Pain Management. The resource schedules are similarly structured, though we also have one in that dictionary for PREOP. Appointment groups are very similar: OR, OP PROC, PM, and GI. Finally, appointment types then fall under those four groups. Our Nursing unit coordinators handle most of the Outpatient procedure scheduling; they also can view the OR & GI schedules, though they can't add/change those schedules -- that's handled by the OR staff. One thing we did to sweeten the pot was to NPR-ize all of the OR & GI forms, and create nice little packets that OR can print, customized by patient (or blank if they prefer). And, we automated the daily appointment lists (for OR and outpatient procedures) to print at convenient times & places, including in Admitting. For certain appointment types, we also use e-mail notification to help keep the right people in the loop when a certain type of appointment is booked. We have a fledgling centralized scheduling department, but they are handling radiology appointments & some others; we felt that, for OR & OP PROC, it was better to leave that de-centralized. Hope that's what you were looking for, let me know if you have more questions! Gary Hall Clinical Applications Specialist Estes Park Medical Center Information Systems Department 970-577-4443 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roehe, Minnie Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Scheduling We are a Magic shop with most of the older applications.(BAR,Scheduling,Clinicals, etc) What we would like is advice on how others are using be it Meditech or Other to schedule for OR,ENDO,Ambulatory etc. Our Users have about 4 spreadsheets done in MOX way back from 1992 and can't see out of this box. Real problem here everybody faxing to each other to try to keep these spreadsheets maintained for other Hospital areas to view. Also a big problem for our physician offices what area to call for what appointment. Your input is greatly appreciated. Minnie Roehe OakBend Medical Center 1705 Jackson Street, Richmond,Texas 77469 281-341-2882 [EMAIL PROTECTED] All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender of this communication immediately. _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
