Order Entry
- Order entry by department
- Edits orders as data is entered and rejects incomplete orders
- Immediate transmission of order by appropriate department
- Assign sequence number to each order
- Hold orders in queue if ancillary department terminal is inoperative
- Retrieve patient identification, diagnosis, physician, and other information from patient data base for automatic inclusive orders
- Menu selection of orders
- No limit on number of pending orders for each patient
- Capability to cancel orders after entry
- Enter free text with order
- Enter orders manually processed during downtime
- Security system preventing unauthorized entry of orders
- Generate future and time series orders
- Displays all pending orders by type of orders
- Displays all orders and messages since admission by type of order
- Maintains transaction log of all orders by nursing station
- Allows ancillaries to enter result information for stat orders
or abnormal results with copy generated at nursing station
- Prints requisitions in ancillary departments where desired
- Prints standards and ranges on requisitions
- Automatic generation of charges for patient bill as by-product of ordering process or result entry at user option
- Online modification of charge master file
- Real time communication of charges to financial system
- Nursing station and physician census available at each nursing unit
- Capability to route messages to any printer
- Online stat lab result broadcasting
- Print or view open orders upon demand
- Maintains transaction log of all orders by nursing station
- Enter manual charges or credits with orders that do not have standard charges
- Hold orders until date ordered
- Ability to print report for consulting physicians by location or physician
- Capability to receive physician orders from remote terminals in physician office
- Manual charge entry for clinics and ER from menu by patient
- Generate lists according to selected orders