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Stacey LaGrange

(@slagrang)

Posts: 185

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We would like the data symbol for {APPT_NEXT()} to display the book name instead of the name of the person who booked the appointment.

Stacey LaGrange
Software Developer/Analyst
St. Mary's Health System
[email protected]
(207) 777-8410

Posted : April 18, 2012 9:48 pm

mboulerice

(@mboulerice)

Posts: 73

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We upgraded to EMR 9.5 over the weekend and now that data symbol shows the Location of Care of the appt. along with who made the appt. It used to show the appt. book name.

Posted : May 3, 2012 5:59 am

jjordet

(@jjordet)

Posts: 545

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This shows appts for all users, or just the current user, (mine) and all future appts, or just the next appt, (next). arg is either 'list' or 'delimited' format.

{fn ListFutureAppointments(arg, mine, next)

{

local rec_delim = ""

local field_delim = ""

local count

local appt = array()

local atype

local book = array()

local bookcount

local loc

local username

local i = 0

local j

local status

local result = ""

if arg=="delim" then

rec_delim = "|"

field_delim = "^"

else

rec_delim = hret

field_delim = ", "

endif

count = GETROWCOUNT("_MELCurPatientAppt") // _MEL???? are global variables from mellib.txt

// Loop thru patients appointments and stop after first for current user

while i<count

and (next<>"next"

or (result==""

and next=="next")) do

appt = GETROW("_MELCurPatientAppt", i, "ApptDate", "ApptTime", "Appttype", "Booklist", "ApptStatus")

// Check for future appointment

if VAL(appt[1])>=._TODAYSDATE then

// Is appointment still scheduled

if VAL(appt[5])==0 then

// Get the type of appointment ... ApptType from _MELApptDef where ID = appt[3]

atype = FIND("_MELApptDef", "ApptType", "ID", appt[3])

// Get the books associated with appointment

book = GETFIELD(appt[4], ":", "")

bookcount = SIZE(book)

// Loop thru books

j = 2

while j<bookcount do

// Get the location of care from the each book

loc = FIND("_MELBook", "LOCID", "ID", book[j])

loc = FIND("_MELLoc", "Name", "LOCID", loc)

// Get the user name from the each book

username = FIND("_MELBook", "UserName", "ID", book[j])

// Build the result if book matches current user

if mine=="all"

or (mine=="mine"

and MATCH(username, 1, user.firstname)>0

and MATCH(username, 1, user.lastname)>0) then

if result<>"" then

result = result + rec_delim

endif

result = result + appt[1] + field_delim + appttime(appt[2]) + field_delim + loc + field_delim + username

endif

j = j + 1

endwhile

endif

i = i + 1

endwhile

return result

}

Posted : May 3, 2012 6:20 am

Stacey LaGrange

(@slagrang)

Posts: 185

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Topic starter

So glad this was fixed, thanks for the update. In the meantime I can try this code and see if it works better than what I use. My MEL has a bug with am/pm between noon and 12:59.

Posted : May 4, 2012 1:22 am

DavidShower

(@davidshower)

Posts: 1255

Noble Member

APPT_NEXT() showing who made the appointment is a bug and was reported on CISDB00047210 per the GE tech I communicated with. You could call and reference that number and get on the SPR to get notified

David

Posted : June 8, 2012 6:54 am

cmahon

(@cmahon)

Posts: 111

Estimable Member

Does anyone know if there is a function for displaying the last most 5 recent appointments? (date, time, location of car, provider (appointment book))
If not - perhaps appointments from the past 3 months?

much appreciated!

Posted : February 9, 2016 7:28 am

Stacey LaGrange

(@slagrang)

Posts: 185

Reputable Member

Topic starter

We use this to display the last appointment if you wanted to alter this. I added the function below to usrlib.txt and then we use the data symbol {SMRMC_APPT_PRIOR()} in letters etc. It looks like this:
11/11/2015,2:45 pm,AV30,KAPP,rkappelm

//APPT (PRIOR) FUNCTION

fn SMRMC_APPT_PRIOR() {
local a, b,c, loc, atype, book
local result=''
local i = getRowCount('_MELCurPatientAppt')
// Loop thru patients appointments
while i > 0 do
i = i-1
a = getRow('_MELCurPatientAppt',i,'ApptDate', 'ApptTime',
'Appttype','Booklist','ApptStatus')
// Find the last appointment
if val(a[1]) < ._TODAYSDATE and val(a[5]) = 3 then
// Get the type of appointment
atype = find('_MELApptDef', 'ApptType', 'ID', a[3])
// Get the location of care from the first book
b = getfield(a[4],',',' :')
loc = find('_MELBook', 'LocationAbbrevName', 'ID', b[1])
//Get the Book Name
c = getfield(a[4],',',' :')
book = find('_MELBook', 'Name', 'ID',
c[1])
// Build the result
result = a[1] + ',' + appttime(a[2]) + ',' + atype + ',' + loc + "," + book
break
endif
endwhile
result
}

Posted : February 11, 2016 4:13 am

cmahon

(@cmahon)

Posts: 111

Estimable Member

This is awesome! Thanks so much

Posted : February 11, 2016 6:26 am

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