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Good Afternoon,
Does anyone know if pre-printed barcodes can be used with CEMR?
What we would like to be able to do is purchase pre-printed barcodes for mass lab sample collection. One barcode would go on the collected specimen, the other on the paper lab requisition. Would like to be able to scan that barcode to create a lab order in Centricity EMR on a patient record.
Thank you.
Wendy Wells
Posted : March 27, 2020 8:47 am
Hi Wendy,
Please feel free to email me at [email protected]. I do not think CEMR has this ability out of the box, but I build custom applications and add-on for Centricity Practice Solutions and CEMR, and can help you with what you are trying to do.
Posted : March 27, 2020 8:54 am
At a previous company, I remember helping someone in inventory with the long strings of data entry for barcoding. We bought a bar code reader, capable of reading the bar code font - there are many kinds of bar codes.
Then, on the data entry field, he would click the scan button on the bar code reader, and the code was filled into the blank.
If I recall, bar code reader was about $100. Might be worth the investment to order one, install it on a PC, and try it out.
Posted : March 30, 2020 3:50 am
Not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but a bar code scanner just converts the code into a sequence of characters. This will go to the current cursor location (e.g. edit field). From there you can include it or parse it to determine what it means. The functionality isn't very difficult. You want to make sure that the bar code scanner you are getting is capable of reading the type of bar code you are trying to scan. There are several different bar code formats. My recollection is that there are linear (2D) and square blocks of data (3D), but I think the 3D might come in a couple of different formats.
The immunization forms (management and administration) that I have posted for free on the marketplace incorporate the ability to read bar codes from immunizations and convert them to vaccine, expiration date and lot #. This would not be difficult to adapt to other uses. Once the functionality is built, the trickiest thing is making sure that you place the cursor in the field that accepts/interprets the bar code before you use the scanner. I always forget that when I demo the form. However, for staff that use it frequently I don't believe that it is a problem...
Posted : March 31, 2020 12:33 pm
