| | Description | Outpatient Management
Patient registration , appointment
The Outpatients module should support the setting up and maintenance of clinics and the administration and scheduling of outpatient appointments. The system should provide reporting functionality which will allow planners to see the level of demand for clinics and other statistical information.
The module should allow entries for recurring , referral and clinical outpatients |
| 1 | | Outpatient scheduling , pre-registration , and registration | | 4 | | Handle visits for recurring outpatients | | 5 | | Edit and view outpatient data | | 6 | | Ability to process multiple referral requests for a single patient visit |
| 7 | | Support the setting up of outpatient clinics to include :- Clinic name | | 8 | | Support the setting up of outpatient clinics to include :- Clinic location | | 9 | | Support the setting up of outpatient clinics to include :- Clinic specialty | | 10 | | Support the setting up of outpatient clinics to include :- Human and material resources | | 11 | | Support the setting up of outpatient clinics to include :- Patient status ( ex: new , follow up ) | | 12 | | Support the setting up of outpatient clinics to include :- Clinic days and times | | 13 | | Maintain a user defined sessions for a clinic | | 14 | | Can one-off sessions be created for a clinic ( ex: an ad hoc Sunday clinic ) | | 15 | | Can the time slots for different sessions of the same clinic be changed, depending on patient type ( ex: 15min for new , 5 for follow up | | 16 | | Can a series of auto generated sessions be re-scheduled ( ex: one afternoon to another ) | | 17 | | Can public holidays / days off be entered into the system | | 18 | | Ability to generate the appropriate warning when clinic sessions are generated for a holiday |
| >>> Outpatient Registration | | | | 19 | | Provide online pre-registration functions for gathering patient demographic, guarantor, insurance and other data | | 20 | | Support short outpatient registration process ( ex: compared to inpatient admissions ) tailored to simpler outpatient service requirements ( ex: blood draws , lab tests ) | | 21 | | Support inquiry into patient’s past hospital visits for past five years | | 22 | | Provide ability to automatically assign a pre-registration number for scheduling services and charges | | 23 | | Provide on-line help screens for all outpatient registration functions | | 24 | | Allow user to page forward and backward in registration screens | | 25 | | Automatically retrieve patient’s master patient index data into pre-registration function | | 26 | | Automatically establish a patient account from pre-registration record upon arrival of patient for services | | 27 | | Allow rescheduling of pre-registrations without re-entry of patient data | | 28 | | Allow cancellation of pre-registration and prevent posting of charges to the canceled account | | 29 | | Print daily lists of pre-registered patients in alpha order by arrival date, type of service, and financial class | | 30 | | Automatically purge pre-registration records after a hospital-defined time period | | 31 | | Automatically assign new account numbers when registering outpatients | | 32 | | Allow entry of different patient financial class for each outpatient visit | | 33 | | Print outpatient and emergency room registration document at registration with ability to reprint if needed | | 34 | | Support ‘recurring’ outpatient accounts that do not require re-entering registration data at each visit | | 35 | | Provide ability to edit a recurring outpatient’s master record, and reflect all changes in individual visit record | | 36 | | Support processing of contract group account with multiple patient’s services billed to one master account ( ex: employee physicals billed to employer , insurance , etc..) | | 37 | | Support automatic transfer of patient data and charges from ER and outpatient accounts to inpatient account if patient is admitted ( with override capabilities ) | | 38 | | Provide ability to maintain and display insurance authorization requirements during registration and pre-registration functions | | 39 | | Support the entry of the certification number and /or name obtained from insurance company for authorization | | 40 | | Provide quick emergency department registration process ( ex: for stat or unknown patient ) allowing registration records to be completed later | | 41 | | Support inter-facility transfers , and print transfer document |
| >>> Clinic Appointment Handling and Scheduling | | | | 42 | | Allow booking of patients to clinics | | 43 | | Allow the overriding of patient per time slot setup | | 44 | | Handle duplicate appointments for the same day | | 45 | | Provide details of previous appointments for a patient | | 46 | | Creating , moving , rescheduling and canceling of appointments |
| 47 | | Support online search for patient data by name | | 48 | | Support online search for patient data by phonetic ( soundex ) name search | | 49 | | Support online search for patient data by social security number | | 50 | | View an online summary of patients not attending a clinic session , at any given time |
| 51 | | Print detail and summary reports of daily outpatient registrations by services | | 53 | | Daily list by name, hospital location, account number, or service time | | 56 | | Census list for recurring outpatients report |
| 57 | | Support interface to patient billing system to transfer patient demographic, insurance and other data | | 58 | | Support interface to Master Patient Index and Medical Record |
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