Meditech Version 5.67 and HX Comments

[Susan Betler]

Hello: We just had an upgrade (?) and discovered that the HX Comments, if they are more than 4 lines, are printing NOT in the Patient Demographic AREA but after queries and reasons, etc.  Techs will have to scroll through pages to find the HC Comments. My laboratory is a generalist lab with techs floating between 3 departments. I put many "helpful" hints, etc in the patient HX Comments field.  Any comments for those with version 5.67?  Thanks

[goodchild]

You have me concerned because we're scheduled for this upgrade in the coming months and we also use the BBK History comments to convey a lot of information. When you describe the placement of information on your specimen inquiry though, I'm confused and would be very curious to see it.

[BankerGirl]

We just had this upgrade yesterday and I noticed that too.  It definitely looks strange, but the HX comments box still appears first when you go into result entry.  I'm hoping this will work out OK.  Time will tell. 

[Susan Betler]

if you are using BBK Specimen Internal Inquiry,which is what we use on our pending log to see what is "coming" into the department,  there are a lot of headers on the left side. Example ORD PRODS: followed by ORD TESTS: followed by COMMENTS: which can be rather large and many pages if you have test view group, etc, followed by QUERIES: MARKERS: COL BATCH: ORDER SITE: RCV SITE: PERFORM SITE: RPT AUDIT: AND THEN FINALLY HX COMMENTS are printed. 

I have had 2 techs think that this is new meditech and there is nothing that needs to be looked at or investigated....hmmmmmm.

[goodchild]

Interesting. Right now for us it's in a separate box sandwiched between the patient demographics and the specimen information.

[goodchild]

I just read a DTS from Meditech regarding this issue: CS LAB 8340.

It still displays the information immediately prior to any issued products or test results, but in the header it displays: "History comments too long for the report header. Please see below."