Our only limitations to entering a provider in our Provider Dictionary is that he/she must have Kansas license.  We are able to get enough demographic information, UPIN#, etc., from various web sites, phone books, physician order, etc., and do a pretty good job at this. 

 

We use the Provider Type of NS (Non-staff) for those without privileges at our facility.  In addition, you can limit admitting provider errors by entering a N in the  Adm Priv field.  Also, an N in the Phys Order field limits the list of providers that clinical staff sees in PCS.

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melaine Saxon
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 3:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Criteria for entering Physicians in the ProviderDictionary

 

I hope some one on the L can help me with this issue. We have some staff at our institution that want to enter every Physician that sends a patient to our facility in the provider dictionary. It does not matter if he is on staff or not. It does not matter if her lives within a specified radius of the hospital or not and it does not matter if we have all the data we need to complete the dictionary or not. We are in a tourist area and we do have a large number of out of area physician orders.

 

I would like to know how other facilities handle entries to the Provider Dictionary and if you have any restrictions. If you allow all doctors in this dictionary, do you have a way to separate doctors on staff and within a specified radius, from those that are most likely to send a patient once every ten years? My big concern to many sound alike / look alike physician names and mnemonics and thus errors in admitting doctor and ordering dr etc.

 

Also, what are the pro and cons of allowing every physician in the Provider Dictionary? I have to report these findings at a meeting on Thursday to the hospital risk manager.

 

Thanks in advance for any information and assistance you can provide with this issue.

 

Melaine Saxon, RN

Senior Analyst

Beaufort Memorial Hospital

Beaufort, SC 29907

(843) 522-7901

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

 


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