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A Unit is the name for each departmental or service area within VetView. Units can be large functional areas such as a pharmacy, or a smaller sub-area of a bigger parent unit such as Small Animal Hospital and all its available services. Non-clinical departments such as Inventory, Medical Records, and Accounting, should also be distinguished as their own units. The tree structure on the left pane should be adjusted until it closely matches your hospital's internal structure and hierarchy. The more closely it matches, the more accurate your revenue reporting will be by unit. Begin by choosing the unit you would like to set up. If your unit does not exist already, you may also add a new Unit by clicking the Add Unit button. This will automatically load a blank Unit Details for you to name the unit. Once you have your Unit names defined, you can begin to fill in the details associated with each unit, such as contact information, the documents it will use, the appointment types and associated episode types, schedules, assigned users, and location information. As each of these tabs contains a lot of settings, they have been broken out into their own pages.
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A "catalog" is a collection of digital documents and requests that can be associated with a unit. VetView's digital document system is designed to mimic a virtual cubby, in which each unit has its own bin of papers and forms. A catalog can contain unlimited catalog items. Catalog items contain a specific document, but also contain automatic attributes, such as generating reminders or automatically adding charges. See the Catalog Setup section for more details. |
Question Setup: If your unit is a receiving area and has a standard set of questions that will need to be filled out with every request, it can be assigned at the catalog level. These high level questions are only available for Request catalogs. For example, "Has the client signed the consent form?" for procedures. More specific questions for each procedure can be assigned at the document level.
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Appointment Type SetupThe Appointment Types tab allows you to set up appointment types for the schedules assigned to this unit. It also allows you to map your appointment type to a default episode type so that the episode order will open with the correct information. This also allows the episode type to bring in the necessary parts of the medical record for that kind of appointment and episode.
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This section allows you to define the schedules for your unit. Schedules in VetView include internal resources, client appointments, receiving unit time slots - any schedule your unit needs can be initially defined here. Image Removed Click on the Add button to create a new schedule. Image Removed The schedule name is free text. Schedules within a unit can be linked to subgroups, so if you wish to maintain multiple types of schedules for your personnel or clients, you can add a group (click on the plus sign) and then create multiple schedules with that group. Group names are optional, however, so for a small unit with no sub-groups, it can be left out. See Schedule Setup for more information. |
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Product Mapping This section allows you to auto-associate products that are coming in through another interface to VetView with your unit, such as machine reports sent in HL7 via the API or charges from a lab. If you turn this on, then the first time an incoming charge is sent to VetView that is associated with your unit but unknown in the system, it will automatically create a new product in the inventory, and all future charges with that same code will be associated with that product. These settings tell the inventory system the basic defaults for new products tied into your unit, so that the charges applied in the system can be tracked on Orders appropriately. These mappings only apply to new unknown charges being submitted to VetView through an outside interface. Products defined manually first can be customized further in the Product Setup screens. Image Removed
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Assigned UsersAssigning users to a unit allows those personnel to see private schedules, accept incoming requests to that Unit, and drives other unit-specific future items in VetView. It is critical to ensure that users are associated with a Unit, as well as that the user has the required privileges via Role Management to do certain tasks within a unit. For example, if a user is unable to see any Requests on the Requests screen, it is likely because they have not been assigned to any unit marked as Receiving. As of version 1.6.1 VetView does not auto-update a student's assigned unit based on their clinical rotation schedule, so this will still need to be manually managed by your student coordinators. Image Removed To add a new user, click on the Add button and search for their last name or first name. Image Removed To remove a user, select the row and click on the Delete button. Adding or removing a user does not affect functionality in the past on VetView, only going forward in the future. So if a user is removed from a unit, their name will still be associated with any previous episodes that they worked on for the unit. |
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Request Setup
If your unit is a receiving unit, then you can define the statuses that your incoming Requests have available. You can also set up which personnel will be notified on each status, so that the appropriate people are informed as a request is processed.
Request status names are hard coded into VetView and cannot be modified.
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Add: Allows you to add a new status for Requests to your unit and associate automatic messaging with different personnel on that status change. (Statuses not listed will still be available, but no personnel will be automatically messaged.)
Edit: Allows you to edit the notifications associated with the selected status.
Delete: Deletes the status of the selected row and all associated instant messaging. (The status will still be available for any requests incoming, as defined under the Request setup.)
Populate Statuses: For hospitals using data migrated from an older EHR system, this will import any existing statuses from previous Requests and allow you to modify them without manually adding them. This only needs to be done once per unit.
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Requests also have a customizeable workflow that can be defined at the Catalog level, to make certain statuses required or available. See Catalog Setup for more information. |
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Patient LocationsIf the unit has cages or stalls in the unit, you can define the names of those cages or stalls on this page. Doing so provides a quick list for those within that hospital unit when assigning patients to that location. This also allows hospital staff to accurately track the whereabouts of a patient during their stay. This information feeds to the census and patient location indicators.
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Inventory Locations
If your unit has an inventory receiving location or a holding area, you can set up the system to recognize this area as part of your unit. By defining these locations for the unit, you allow other parts of the system to transfer inventory to and from those areas, and also allow inventory to be tracked against it on Episode Orders.
Inventory areas can be defined even if you do not want the ability to perform transfers to and from the area.
Only one inventory location can be marked as default for each unit.
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The Hospital Unit tree displays your units in a hierarchical parent-child relationship. If a unit is in the wrong place in your organization, you can edit the parent unit to force it into the appropriate location.
Inactive units are hidden by default, but can be displayed by clicking on Show All Units.
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