You could also have Meditech associated a dictionary customer-defined screen to these, and store the values internally. Cindy Bodnar-Anderson IS, Senior Programmer/Analyst Regional Health Rapid City SD 57701
-----Original Message----- From: Long, Cheryl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:51 PM To: 'Valerie A. Holdener'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Ethnicity - JCAHO Requirement We designed our rad dictionary like this: AIH AMER INDIAN-ALASKN NAT\HISP AIN AMER INDIAN-ALASKN NAT\NONHISP AIU AMER INDIAN-ALASKN NAT\UNKNOWN ASH ASIAN\HISPANIC ASN ASIAN\NONHISPANIC ASU ASIAN\UNKNOWN BLH BLACK\HISPANIC BLN BLACK\NONHISPANIC BLU BLACK\UNKNOWN OTH OTHER\HISPANIC OTN OTHER\NONHISPANIC OTU OTHER\UNKNOWN PIH PACFIC ISLAND/HAWIIAN\HISPANIC PIN PACIFIC ISLAND/HAWIIAN\NONHISP PIU PACIFIC ISLAND/HAWIIAN\UNKNOWN UNH UNKNOWN\HISPANIC UNN UNKNOWN\NONHISPANIC UNU UNKNOWN\UNKNOWN UTA UNABLE TO ASK RACE & ETHNICITY WHH WHITE\HISPANIC WHN WHITE\NONHISPANIC WHU WHITE\UNKNOWN Then in the download for JCAHO we did a string search and assigned the race response to the correct number: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"W" 1;@race'%1="BL" 2;@race'%1="AI" 3;@race'%1="AS" 4; [EMAIL PROTECTED]"O"!(@race#0="U")!('@race) 7} and ethnicity: VAL=IF{L(@race)=2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]"H" "Y";"N"};[EMAIL PROTECTED]"H" "Y";"N"}} Cheryl Long, RN Systems Analyst Howard Young Health Care PO Box 470 240 Maple Street Woodruff, WI 54568 ph (715) 356-8728 fax (715) 356-8076 -----Original Message----- From: Valerie A. Holdener [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Ethnicity - JCAHO Requirement Meditech users, JCAHO now requires for hospitals to identify Ethnicity of our patients. For example, the two classifications of ethnicity are: 1) -Hispanic or Latino; or 2)-Not Hispanic or Latino. How are other Meditech facilities documenting this and where? Thank you for your replies. Valerie Holdener, RHIT Anderson Hospital Financial Analyst ph. (618) 288-5711 x 633 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Notice: This email is intended only for the person(s) identified above. It contains information, which may be privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under law. If you are not the intended recipient of the email, you are hereby notified that you should not review the contents of the email, and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please notify me immediately at the listed phone number or email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, please destroy it in such a way that it cannot be accidentally redisclosed. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender at the electronic mail address noted above and destroy all copies of this communication and any attachments. Thank you for your cooperation. ***Note: The information contained in this message, including any attachments, may be privileged, 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 immediately by a "reply to sender only" message and destroy all electronic or paper copies of the communication, including any attachments.
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