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Collection date and time for lab specimens

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sellis

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Hello CHUG Land!
We send most all of our lab specimens to our partner hospital and they have requested we include the date and time of specimen collection on all order forms. We tried having staff enter the date and time on the order while it was in admin hold before moving to in process but got very poor results. So then we tried making it a required field in the order build, but the info is required before sign off on the orders (providers do most all order entry) and staff work orders after they have been entered. It needs to be a required field, AFTER the provider enters the order, not during.
Any ideas??

Thanks!

Posted : July 1, 2016 8:12 am

DavidShower

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You could have your Page Close Handler 's test include USER_JOBTITLE to determine if it is a provider or not.

Posted : July 5, 2016 3:59 am

joeg1962

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Trying to understand where you are even capturing the specimen date/time? Is it part of its own custom-VFE entry form the MA's use? And access, after the order was created?

Posted : July 6, 2016 9:39 am

sellis

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Thanks!!
It is in the actual build of the code itself. I have added a prompt of "Please Enter Date and Time of Collection:". Then selected the box to make "Additional Information Required". This makes some sort of entry in the Instructions text box on the Order Details tab in Update Orders required.
I would rather not use this method, as it makes the providers enter the date and time labs were collected prior to signing off on the order and the labs aren't even collected yet. How can I make this field required from the Orders list, so that when the MA's go to print the order, it is then required. Or, is there some other way to document the collection date and time as a required field?

Posted : July 7, 2016 4:20 am

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