Patient Care - Reference Manual - Physician - Fraser Health Authority

InterfaceLocationThe ability to pass information from one MEDITECH module toanother, i.e. Order Entry to Medical Imaging.Name of patient care unit or department that patient is in.Lookup The look up key – Multiple menu choice of any dictionary –contains, in alphabetical order, all the mnemonics of the dictionaryitems, and their descriptions.MenuMnemonicModuleMPIOEOrder DateOrder SetOrder StatusSelection of routines available to users.A short series of characters that represent a larger, more complexseries of characters. Mnemonics identify entries in MEDITECHdictionaries.A set of related programs within MEDITECH that operateindependently and may share data with other modules. A moduleconsists of a set of routines organized in a system of menus. Forexample, Order Entry is a module.Master Patient Index – A file that permanently stores the followingpatient information:• name• unit number• date of birth• age• sex• maiden/other names• mother's name• visit history• record statusThe system uses this information during the MPI Search to helpidentify patients who possess a record in the MPI.Order EntryThe date on which an order is entered.A group of orders that can be ordered together instead of individuallyby placing a at the category level and pressing the look upkey.Current status of an orderHealth InformaticsHealth Information Systems and Services© Fraser Health Authority, 2006. All rights reserved.67