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- An alternative for validating & updating to Vitalink at the end of a contact is doing so when having the patient friendly medication screen open. Often this is one of the last actions the healthcare professional does when working in the patient file.
- The healthcare professional can choose if he/she wants to print or wants to print & immediately validate the medication scheme towards Vitalink.
- In this way, the healthcare professional doesn't need to validate anymore before closing the patient file in the EHR.
- As an alternative, it is also possible to use the Patient medication scheme that is provided by Vitalink. This will be offered in pdf format.
Support staffs prepares patient visit
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- This type of healthcare professionals have no validation rights related to the active medication, but they indicate in the local EHR that the medication is checked.
- Therefore they use the action button 'register internal check'.
- In this wireframe, this button is active but not highlighted since the Vitalink sync is not yet done.
- This type of healthcare professionals can add / edit / stop / ... medication in the local home medication of the EHR, just in an informative way (to inform the healthcare professional with validation rights).
- When a nurse, pharmacist assistant or medical secretary would open the patient record in the EHR, the system will start automatically checking if there is a Vitalink medication scheme for this patient. If yes, there will be a sync with Vitalink.
- Here, it is visible that the system is syncing the local EHR home medication list with the Vitalink medication scheme.
Example when a nurse, pharmacist assistant or medical secretary can add/edit/stop medication and register internal check (once Vitalink is synced).
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- After syncing with Vitalink, it is visible that one new medication line is added from Vitalink to the local EHR medication list.
- 3 medication lines are only available in the local EHR (they have no Vitalink icon).
- Since the sync with Vitalink is done, the button to register that the medication is checked becomes highlighted.
- The nurse, pharmacist assistant or medical secretary will check with the patient if all medication listed is still relevant (= actively taken).
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- Next, the nurse / pharmacist assistant / medical secretary clicks on 'Register internal check'.
- This will result in an additional date, which would be the internal check date (visible on the next wireframe).
Example when a specialist is logged in and checks the internal check done by the nurse, pharmacist assistant or medical secretary. There are no changes.
Example of tooltip when mouse over on the date that the internal check was done. In this way it is visible who the internal check of the medication scheme has done.
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- When seeing this medication list, the specialist can assume that this is the correct active medication of the patient.
- If the specialist wants to see more information on who has checked the medication scheme, this can be retrieved by doing a mouse over on the internal check date. Next a tooltip with the name appears.
- The specialist can continue with the ambulant visit.
Example when a specialist is logged in and checks the internal check done by the nurse, pharmacist assistant or medical secretary. There are changes.
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Variant 3: Vitalink medication scheme changes
Example when a specialist is logged in and checks the internal check done by the nurse, pharmacist assistant or medical secretary. There are changes.
The specialist notices new changes that are made on Vitalink after the internal check.
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Variant 2: Home Medication is outdated compared to Vitalink
Example of synced home medication.
- In this example, it is visible that the home medication of the EHR is synced with the Vitalink data.
- Vitalink has newer information, which is added to the home medication of the EHR.
- The medication line coming from Vitalink is clearly indicated (highlight, icon, label).
- 3 medication lines are not on Vitalink, they are only available in the local EHR.
- The healthcare professional can add/edit/stop/... medication from the home medication of the EHR before transferring it to the admission medication.
Example of new sync with Vitalink that has be done before transferring to admission medication.
- The healthcare professional can validate this medication scheme towards Vitalink before starting to transfer medication from the home medication to the admission medication.
- This validation towards Vitalink is not obliged but strongly recommended.
- In this example it is visible that at this moment (new date: 31.05.2019) everything of the local EHR is in sync with Vitalink.
- In this way, when syncing again with Vitalink at discharge, there will be less difference between the medication schemes.
Example of selection made to transfer home medication to admission medication.
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