Chapter 8

 Switch divisions within a location  Toggle between the patient names and ages with reasons for visit  Read the symbols in the patient orders column  Read the terms in the medical workflow status column  Identify the last clinical staff and provider to see the patient  Read the total time for the patient’s visit

 Real-time workflow  Medical workflow status  Location  Division  Ages with reasons for visits  Next step in the workflow  Discipline waiting times  Current clinical staff and provider  Total elapsed time for patient visit

 Displays real-time workflow view of medical facility  Each member of clinical staff uses this screen  Accesses his/her portion of documentation screens for clinical care of patient  Registered patients appear on this screen with medical workflow status of Room indicating they are in the reception area waiting to be placed into an examination room

Initial view of Clinic Status screen displays the names of patients who are currently in the medical facility in Name/Reason column

 You can toggle the Clinic Status screen between displaying the patient’s names to displaying their ages with reasons for visits by clicking Name/reason button(F6)  Click Name/Reason button again to reset the screen to display patient names

 Contains additional notes about special formatting for the Name/Reason fields

 The ORDER column is to the right of the NAME/REASON column on the Clinic Status screen which displays the status of the patient’s orders for the current visit(Fig. 8-4)

 Figure 8-5-The STATUS column appears to the right of the ORDER column and displays the next step in the clinical workflow for each patient

 Room-waiting to be place into an exam/treatment room. Currently in the reception area.  Ans CN-Waiting for the clinical staff to answer the clinical notes.  Prt CL-Waiting for the clinical staff to put the chart in the rack(or print the doctor’s checklist).  Call-Waiting for the provider to call the company before seeing the patient(work comp only).  Rack-Waiting for the provider to pick up the chart and examine the patient.  Examine-The provider is currently examining the patient  Disch-The patient has all the necessary paperwork and is ready to be discharged.  Done-The patient is done and has returned to the front desk to pay(patient responsibility only).  Blank-The patient currently has open orders that were placed by the provider.

 Figure 8-7-Columns to the right of the STATUS column on the Clinic Status screen display the patient waiting times for each discipline  Figure 8-8 contains each discipline  Figure 8-9 contains the color coding for each discipline waiting time

 The columns to the right of the patient waiting times columns on the Clinic Status screen display the current clinical staff (TEC) and provider (DOC) to see the patient at this visit. Figure 8-10

 The last column on the right contains the total elapsed time for the patient’s visit from the time that the patient registered at the front desk.