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With the new Immunization Management HTML form we now have the Immunization History View to see what the patient has had done. The problem with this view is that if you had preloaded any vaccines with a status of Historical, it will not pull over correctly with the Migration Wizard. Historical is not one of the values the Migration Wizard is looking for per GE (only pulls: Given, Done, Yes, & Received).
Because of this, we now have vaccine dates listing on the history view with a ? next to the dates as the date now needs to be verified. The process to verify these vaccines is very timely and not convenient at all. We are checking to see if anyone has created a different view or form that will pull the vaccine data simply without needing to use the Immunization History View to accomplish this. This would be something similar to how we could pull the data from the flowsheet's or a different History View that does not list the ????? after the dates.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Sirna
Posted : January 19, 2015 10:38 am
I'm interested in a solution to this as well.
Posted : January 19, 2015 10:56 am
You will have to use a script to transfer it from the OBS table to the Immunizations Table.
Posted : January 20, 2015 6:12 am
Actually, if you have a ? on the form then it is in the Immunizations table already, but you need secondary queries to 1) look at all undetermineds for patterns and 2) do something (convert, drop or leave alone) with each type of undetermined. For example, we had lots of ?s from preloads. Interestingly, all items on preloads would be fine except for those given in the year 2000. For some reason the Migration Tool choked on dates like "01/01/00"... anything with "00" as the year migrated as undetermined. We had a secondary script that converted all of those immunizations. This is just one example of the items we had to enumerate in the query to convert. Similarly, we had a query to drop some things that were obviously not immunizations. Some things we left alone (< 1%) for the clinicians to figure out on their own with the patient there in front of them to clarify.
In any case, I'd resist the urge to branch off with your own history view because it is not as flexible as it used to be. It is driven by an immunization function file which also drives the Immunization Letter. Once you hack the immunization function file you do not get the benefit of future updates from GE which there will be ad infinitum IMO.
Posted : January 30, 2015 7:41 am
We are planning to upgrade to 12.07 because of the Immunizations. We have 12.07 installed in our test environment, however I'm not sure which version is worse.
When using the immunization letter and history view, sometimes it work and sometimes it does not, meaning you will see the immunizations then the next time you look at the same history view or letter, only the mel code shows up.
Still waiting on an answer from GE.
Posted : March 6, 2015 10:47 am
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So by pure chance, I had to open another ticket for this and was helped by GE and they were able to run a script to clean up the undefined vaccines. One database went from over 17k undefined to under 200 after the script was run. If you encounter this, open a ticket with GE and ask for the script to clean these up.
Posted : March 6, 2015 10:49 am
On the phone with GE now, and this person denies knowing anything about a script to clean up the undefines. Can I have them reference your case number ?
Posted : March 6, 2015 11:02 am
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Case Number 1-613938513
Posted : March 6, 2015 11:07 am
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I hope you were forwarded to the right person to help! Let me know.
Posted : March 6, 2015 11:17 am
Not yet, still waiting. Will call again.
Posted : March 7, 2015 11:03 am
Sirna,
Gotta love this forum. Most GE support people had no idea what I was talking about, even after I asked them to refer to your case number. Persistence paid off, and I finally reached the correct person. Our database was fixed today, we went from 306991 undetermined messages to 108. Much more manageable.
Thank you!
Posted : March 10, 2015 10:04 am
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This makes me very happy!! I am glad we have this site to use as a resource, makes everything much more manageable for sure!
Posted : March 10, 2015 10:09 am
We also fixed the immunization history view and immunization letter ourselves. It seems everytime you would load the HTML immunization form and then exit it, the immunization function file that is loaded when Centricity starts was being overwritten. We just took the immunization function file content, replaced *'s with / and inserted it at the beginning of the immunization letter and history view. It loads every time. GE support wanted to give us the previous version of the letter and history view which does not show flu shots.
Posted : March 10, 2015 10:12 am
