On FOCUS

by A 6.0 Application Analyst

After a romantic dinner and night in the city, it was now or never.  The proposal was next and went something like this: ”EDM 6.X, like MAGIC, also needs to have tracker treatment and assessment indicators.”  Probably not the proposal story you had in mind, but most people have a proposal story – some have several.   As our site has progressed from EDM MAGIC to 6.X, we have a few.  Some of them are GAPS (gaps in functionality in 6.X from MAGIC or Client/Server) and some of them are new proposals.  I’ll share a few with you in this blog series. 

The goal is to have other 6.X sites and future sites review them and add their sites to them, an effort to collectively influence the priorities that proposals become a marriage and are applied in EDM 6.X.

Let’s start with 6.0 Proposal # 17073 – EDM Treatment Indicators

In MAGIC, our site was using treatment indicators in a variety of ways.  Our emergency department providers placed a nursing intervention order in the system, which was linked to a treatment that populated the Triage/Doc list (in 6.0 this is called the Worklist).  The order also triggered a customer defined indicator (we set RN and some others) and then disappeared once the item was documented.  In MAGIC, a dictionary in EDM established the link, and a few other dictionaries allowed the use of colors, text and placement of the indicator.

MAGIC Tracker

MAGIC Triage/Documentation Routine

In 6.0, there is a dictionary called the indicator scheme that is not as directly tied to EDM treatments as the dictionary was in MAGIC.  There are some workarounds, but  these workarounds may not work for your site, depending on your process and modules.

If you work at a current or future 6.0 site that may want treatment indicators, please look into requesting Proposal 17073.  If you’re not 6.0 but want to comment about indicators, please do so below.  If you’re interested in the treatment indicator workaround, please comment and include your email address.

 Stay tuned for The Second Proposal!

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