The module is required to ensure that all needed resources are available, to provide the most effective use of surgical teams, to help plan the surgical department case day and to ensure incorporation of emergency cases.
The Surgical Patient Scheduling ( Theater Management / Operating Room Management ) module should provide a totally flexible way of utilizing the hospital’s operating rooms facilities by using an organizational or scheduling tools by staff at all levels within the hospital .
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| Surgical Patient Scheduling Module |
| | Description | The module is required to ensure that all needed resources are available, to provide the most effective use of surgical teams, to help plan the surgical department case day and to ensure incorporation of emergency cases.
The Surgical Patient Scheduling ( Theater Management / Operating Room Management ) module should provide a totally flexible way of utilizing the hospital’s operating rooms facilities by using an organizational or scheduling tools by staff at all levels within the hospital . |
| 1 | | Schedule Patients for Surgery | | 2 | | Handle Same Day Surgery | | 3 | | Manage reservations and waiting lists by assigning priorities | | 4 | | Handling multiple operating rooms ( i.e. elective and emergency ) | | 5 | | Allow authorized departments to view the operating rooms information | | 6 | | Handle standard coding of procedures ( ex: OPCS4 codes ) | | 7 | | Provide sensitive archiving facilities | | 8 | | Book elective patients from the Waiting List Module | | 9 | | Allow users to allocate free operating room time to a doctor | | 10 | | Allow multiple bookings for the same patient ( ex: different surgical cases ) |
| >>> Operating Rooms Management | | | | 11 | | Booking data :- Ward and bed number | | 12 | | Booking data :- Patient number | | 13 | | Booking data :- Patient’s full name | | 15 | | Booking data :- Gender | | 16 | | Booking data :- Proposed operation/procedure | | 17 | | Booking data :- Physician / surgeon | | 18 | | Booking data :- Booking date and time | | 19 | | Booking data :- Anesthetist | | 20 | | Booking data :- Assisting doctor(s) | | 21 | | Booking data :- Any special requirements | | 22 | | Handling of session allocations ( ex: schedule of surgeons allocated to an operating room ) | | 23 | | Ability to set up pre-weekly/monthly patterns for surgeon’s sessions | | 24 | | Allow users to inquire on a surgeon’s booking and update patient data | | 25 | | Allow for rescheduling sessions if an operating room is not available | | 26 | | Ability to transfer patient’s from one surgeon to another | | 27 | | Automatically allocate the first session available for a surgeon | | 28 | | Allow for the same surgeon to be allocated to different operating rooms | | 29 | | Allow to create valid operating room sessions for any given date range | | 30 | | Allow operating rooms to be closed at weekends and public holidays | | 31 | | Allow users to set up schedules as well as emergency operating rooms | | 32 | | Allow for closure of operating rooms ( ex: due to equipment unavailability ) | | 33 | | Re-allocate patients automatically to the next available session if a schedule operating room is unavailable | | 34 | | Allow for changes , rescheduling , and cancellation of bookings |
| >>> Procedures and Resources Recording and Confirmation | | | | 36 | | Pre and post operative diagnosis | | 37 | | Floor and operating room nurse | | 39 | | Proposed procedure / operation | | 42 | | Start time of each activity ( ex: patient arrival, anesthesia applied , surgery start time, etc.) | | 43 | | Instrument ( sharps and sponge ) counts | | 44 | | Pre and post operation tests | | 46 | | Laboratory results ( Pathology ) | | 50 | | Record period of time spent at the OT Recovery | | 51 | | Record surgery procedure confirmation in conjunction with K Factor and elapsed time | | 52 | | Update the waiting list module once the operation is completed | | 53 | | Pass procedural and medical charges to patient billing | | 54 | | Allow for basket handling of supplies for patient | | 55 | | Account for return to inventory of unused supplies | | 56 | | Interface with supply for return for sterilization | | 57 | | Allow ordering drugs required at time of surgery |
| 58 | | Operating Room and Sessions inquiries | | 59 | | Show the bookings allocated to a surgeon for a particular date , operating room and session |
| 60 | | Produce Operating room booking register report | | 64 | | Physician utilization statistics | | 65 | | Nurse utilization statistics | | 66 | | Operating Room and hospital utilization statistics |
| 69 | | Admissions , transfers and discharge | | 72 | | Financials , Billing , Patient Account | | 73 | | Order results management | | 74 | | Accident and emergency |
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