The Update view enables you to add or update the following information:
The Update view.
Note: | As a rule, EDIS requires you to enter a provider before it allows you to remove a patient from the display board. Exceptions to this rule apply to the following dispositions: Patient Name Entered in Error, Left Without Being Treated/Seen, and Sent to Nurse Eval / Drop In Clinic. |
Adding a nurse, provider, or resident assignment in EDIS automatically creates a visit in CPRS—unless EDIS has already created a visit for a particular emergency-department episode of care or the staff member you assigned does not have a valid person class in VistA. To reduce the possibility of creating duplicate visits, EDIS checks back one hour for Patient Care Encounter (PCE) visit entries associated with the emergency department location your site’s IT staff has specified. (EDPF LOCATION parameter settings and—if applicable—Clinic list selections determine the location EDIS uses to create visits. The Clinic list is available on the Triage view.)
The application creates only one visit for each emergency-department episode of care (or encounter). You can avoid creating duplicate visits for the same episode of care by selecting the visit that EDIS creates when you complete patients’ emergency-department encounters in CPRS. EDIS displays a green checkmark in the Display Board view’s Visit column to indicate that it has created a visit in CPRS.Setting a Primary Provider for Your Patients Visit
- When you select a physician from EDISs Provider list, the application sets the physician as the primary provider for your patients visit in CPRS. If you subsequently change the assigned physician in EDIS, EDIS assigns the new physician as the primary provider for the visit in CPRS. In this case, EDIS assigns the originally selected physician as a secondary provider.
- When you select a primary provider for the patients emergency-department visit in CPRS, EDIS updates its Provider selection to reflect this change.
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