Pathology Investigations
Hi,
This is more a workflow question, but I'd like it to be directed from OpenVPMS invoicing, so wondering how everyone else manages their external pathology follow ups (phone calling the owners).
When we charge an external path item, an investigation is created. However our Workflow->Investigations is also full of Radiology, Ultrasound and multiple Pathology lab results.
The follow up calls fall through the cracks when a vet submits a sample and then doesn't work at the clinic again for a week. This relies on another clinician in the department following it up.
Does anyone use the investigation tab successfully and how do you do it?
Would there be a way to choose multiple clinicians or a department?
Do you use the Order Status section and change it to Reviewed/Sent instead of Received to indicate the client has been called?
Thanks,
Greta
Re: Pathology Investigations
Greta - Trilby wanted to institute a rule that one could not finalise and investigation until the vet had talked to the owner about the test.
The fix was to add an 'ownerComms' field to the investigation archetype and to add validation to the status to check that if the status was Finalised then ther had to be something in the Owner Communications field.
So we have:
However, the check is simply 'is the field non-empty' so one can cheat by simply entering say '-'. I suppose that I could make it 'must be more than N characters' wher n is say 8.
Regards, Tim