The Patient Track Application is
used to schedule and monitor patient movements.
The concept behind the Patient Track application is to provide the ability monitor daily
patient arrivals and departures and to give the ability monitor how long any patients have
been in the reception/waiting area. Appointments are typically added daily, the
department and status information are user definable.
The screen below shows a typical Patient Track display where Appointments are being
defined.
When a Patient arrives they will be asked to register by the receptionist, when
registration is complete the receptionist will change the status of the patient to
Registered. The screen below shows how the Patient Track Screen would appear when
this is done.
At the same time as registration is complete, the patient would be assigned an IR
Patient Tracking badge, this badge is used to detect the current location of patients
within the facility. The screen below shows the Patient Track Application when a tag
is being assigned.
Proper use of the Patient Tracking Application suite has to do with proper system
configuration. The Status and option screen defines most of the Patient Track
configuration options. Below we will look at several of these Options:
 | DB - this is usually the Default EPS Database |
| History DB - this is a secondary EPS database used to archive transaction history |
| Filter - this is used to define a subset of Items used by the Patient Track Application |
| Initial Location - this defines the timed location where Patients wait initially |
| Location Group - if used this define subset of locations used by Patient Track |
| Discharge Location - this is the location, where if a patient's badge is seen they are
automatically discharged, this is usually a special sensor located by the receptionist. |
| Unassigned TagId - this defines the Id range used for patients which have not been
assigned badges. |
| Available Tag Group - this defines a subset of IR badges used for Patient tracking. |
The sound definitions define if a tone will be generated anytime a Patient has been at the
initial location more than the "Greater than" time. If this tone is to be
repeated every minute then the Remind on Minute check box should be selected. All of
the time values are user definable via the paTrack.cfg file.
A typical Patient Track screen is shown below.
In the above example a "Walk-In" patient (someone without a appointment) is
being added to the system.
The screen below shows the changes in the screen display when patients have been at the
waiting area (Lobby Front) for more than the specified time periods (Status & Option
screen displays the time/color values).
The bottom right corner of the screen allows the Patient Track Application to launch the Patient Reporting application with the click of the 
command button.
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Last Modified: February 11, 2003
