Greetings, How exactly did <we> format it? If it's read from the screen, we just pick up characters - unless those characters are being stored in a variable that is defined as a date type we wouldn't do anything with them.
or Was this data that was keyed in from an Excel spreadsheet by chance? Regards, Thom Thom C. Blackwell Product Manager Boston Software Systems (866) 653-5105 ex 807 www.bossoft.com <http://www.bossoft.com/> Sign <http://www.bostonworkstation.com/customer_center/special_events.aspx> up for my weekly webinar! LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walker, Reese Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Talk] Format Date I have a script that pulls information from the insurance screen in STAR to allow us to run batch eligibility checks for our series patients. I came across an eligibility rejection that said "Date of Birth cannot be in the future". It turns out the date in star is 08/14/25. meaning 1925 (Medicare, obviously), but BWS formatted it to 2025. How I make sure that any Date of Birth before today never gets formatted as a future date. I guess if we had a patient with a DOB of 1908 they would be an exception, but the chances of that are probably pretty slim. Thanks in advance, Reese Reese E. Walker Financial Systems Analyst Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Albany, GA. 31702 Phone: (229) 312-4259 Pager: (229) 431-7658 Fax: (229) 312-4316 _____ Disclaimer: The HIPAA Final Privacy Rule requires covered entities to safeguard certain Protected Health Information (PHI) related to a person's healthcare. Information being faxed to you may include PHI after appropriate authorization from the patient or under circumstances that do not require patient authorization. You, the recipient, are obligated to maintain PHI in a safe and secure manner. You may not re-disclose without additional patient consent or as required by law. Unauthorized re-disclosure or failure to safeguard PHI could subject you to penalties described in federal (HIPAA) and state law. If you the reader of this message are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and destroy the related message.
