Meditech Orders Inpatient vs Outpatient

[ESIZENSKY]

Couple questions:

How do you manage outpatient and inpatient test orders? If you have an indated TS a new accession number is generated with a new visit account. Meditech  generates a new accession number with each visit. Can you move the  TS from the outpatient account to patient account to avoid a new TS sample.  Moving account numbers in Meditech moves all tests associated with the accession number that creates more problems.

 

 

 

[BankerGirl]

We move the account number if there are no other tests on the requisition.  If there are, we simply copy the results into the Inpatient order and credit the charges on the outpatient one.  This assumes that the outpatient was armbanded when the type and screen was done and meets our requirements for pre-transfusion testing.

[ESIZENSKY]

Do you manually enter the tested results into the inpatient order? Do you have a "copy" function that takes the outpatient results and copies it into the new inpatient.

[BUGGIE]

We use MediTech 5.67, and when we have an out patient we use his Medical Record number that is the same with every visit as our Hospital number on the blood bank band, and then make sure the blood bank orders are entered on a separate requisition number under the fist H number (account number) and then just use the Move To Another Account feature in requisitions to move the blood bank test results to the H number for the day of transfusion.

[BankerGirl]

We also use their Medical Record number for our patient wristband, and we manually result the second Type and Screen.  I don't know of a way to copy the results, although that would be really nice.  Most of the time the blood bank orders are on their own requisition, so we can use the Move To Another Account without any issues.