New and Improved Features

Product Level

Configurable: NA

Existing System:

Appointment creation in the system by a user is mandatory before any encounter creation

Purpose:

There are few medical cases where the user doesn't go for an appointment. The user has a direct encounter with the healthcare provider
Here the user need not follow the traditional way of creating appointments, which is not required for them and can be time-consuming

Enhanced System:

Directly create encounter type in the system
New menu link to create encounter independent of appointment above Appointment Calendar
Clicking this will take the user to Create Encounter Type page
User can choose the employee and click Save or Cancel
On saving it will take the user to the Encounter Type details screen. Cancel will close this page and take the user to the Appointment Central page

Section 1:

Section 2:

User needs to select the employment status, personnel type and select the desired employee

Section 3 :

Will show the following fields. For some default values to be saved and hidden in this screen, the user can edit in appointment detail

Date, Time – Current date and time
Visit Reason - "Medical"
Visit Type - "Office"
Department - non-mandatory product wide
Healthcare Entity - "TBD"
Healthcare Provider -"Health Care Provider" / only if created through Add Encounter will show this value. Will not appear in Healthcare Provider lookup as this will be system-generated similar to COVID-19 Encounter Type
No appointment notification to be sent for the Encounter Type creation
The system needs to show an alert message on double booking of encounter of Healthcare Provider and employee (similar logic to be applied)
Link and the page will be driven by Encounter Permission

Existing Data: NA
Impacts:
- Appointment Central - to show the appointments with default saved values. The user can edit those values if required.
- Appointment list - to show the appointments with default saved values. The user can edit those values if required.
- Employee Medical Profile - to show the appointments with default saved values. The user can edit those values if required.
- Appointment Calendar - Since this is not a real user, no appointment calendar dropdown will show for this user, i.e., Appointment Calendar, Healthcare Provider lookup, Team Roster
- Employee Demographics Report - to show appointment with default values

Configurable: NA

Existing System:

Purpose:

Enhanced System:

Configurable : Product Level

Existing System:

A Healthcare Provider can be scheduled for an appointment for the same start time or end time that overlaps with an existing appointment.
Schedule Follow Up can have the same start time and end time.

Purpose:

In the case of Boundary Time, a duplicate Healthcare Provider popup is still showing for the user, which is tedious for the user.
New Popup changes won't work in case of Current Schedule follow-up.

Enhanced System:

The system will not show an error message if the appointment is scheduled from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. and the next appointment is from 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
ScheduleFollowUp:- If the user Inserts TimeIn case of Schedule FollowUp that will be TimeIn for the appointment and For Time Out By default TimeIn+1hr will be stored