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I am looking for a better way to create tasks or action items for clinical staff. We are using flags in EMR as a crude system of task management. However, I would prefer to create queues for staff to work that have a way of prioritizing tasks.
An example: A patient we performed surgery on 4 days ago was just readmitted to a hospital. Our local Health Information Exchange can alert us about this via ADT. I want that readmission to become a high priority follow-up item for a staff member to follow up and connect with the patient/hospital to find out what is going on.
Anyone have any ideas? I haven't found a vendor that creates a tasking overlay for EMR...
Posted : July 6, 2017 1:09 am
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Posted : July 6, 2017 1:48 am
You could use the inbound HL7 message to create a new document and route it to a desktop. The items on the desktop could be treated as a priority. Also you could import an observation with the document and flag that observation as abnormal which I believe would put an exclamation point next to the document on the desktop.
Posted : July 6, 2017 4:23 am
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Is there a way to make flags reportable? Unfortunately, I do not believe flags on the desktop alone would be sufficient. If flags could be monitored, prioritized, and reported on, I think that method would work great.
Posted : July 6, 2017 6:14 am
Flags that currently exist in the system are reportable, however as soon as they are changed/removed they would not be.
What I am referring to would not be a flag however because LinkLogic does not have a way to import flags via HL7. I am referring to an actual document in the patients chart that would have an observation linked to it. They would show up either in a users or groups desktop under "Documents". Documents are reportable and if they are imported as unsigned, they can not be removed from a desktop until they are signed. (or they could be routed elsewhere) I believe that signing and routing the documents at that point would be easily reportable. (I have never tried to pull data from routing but I think it exists)
This would of course have the effect of making the document part of the patients permanent record (unlike a flag) but it seems like a hospitalization would be something that would be useful in that record.
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It would also give your users a completely different tab to view for the priority items as they would be under "Documents" instead of "Alerts/Flags"
Posted : July 6, 2017 6:32 am
