• Status –
  The valid statuses are:
  • Scheduled
  • Arrived
  • Ready for Clinical Staff
  • With Clinical Staff
  • Ready for Doc
  • With Doc
  • Ready for Checkout
  • Complete
  • No Show
  • Cancelled
  Depending on the current status of the Appointment the list of applicable statuses in the Patient workflow are displayed.
  
  Select the required status from the list box.
  
  
• Room - Depending upon the property, 'appointment.rooms.list' either a predefined list of Room labels is available as a drop-down list or User makes one entry of a Room Label at a time. SET the Room labels as comma separated list in the property, to display as drop-down list or leave it blank to display as a text field. The Room label. is also displayed on the Appointment tab on the Home screen. Note that in the comma separated list of the property, only first 10 characters of each value is displayed in the drop-down list.


• Comment - Comments may be entered when the status of the appointment is changed. These appear on the Home page along with the status.


• Go To– Select either Next Appointment to go the next Scheduled Appointment OR Home Page. This option is available when invoked from the Encounter page only.

The user can add custom status for an appointment on Patient Workflow popup on Appointment > Schedule > Patient Info section and Patient > Encounter > Patient Band .

1. There is a master screen ( Settings > Configuration ) to add Custom (User Defined) Appointment Status .
2. Status Code, Status Name, System Status, Sequence Number, Active/ Inactive and Color are the fields to enter for each Custom Appointment status.
3. Status Code , Status Name and System Status are mandatory fields.
4. Initially the table which holds the data for custom appointment status is populated with all system appointment statuses (E.g. Scheduled, Ready for review etc).
5. These predefined statuses are non editable/ removable except for the color field.
6. The user has to assign a System Status for each newly added status.
7. All system statuses have code in the range 0-21 ( Predefined ). For newly added status, Status Code value should be greater than or equal to 100 .
8. On the Patient Workflow screen (from Appointment Schedule Screen / and Patient Band on Encounter Screen ); Status drop down can be populated with all Custom Appointment Statuses (Which includes all System Statuses as well).
9. User can select any status for the appointment from there that will be reflected on Home screen .
10. TRN_APPOINTMENTS table has one additional field of DAS_USER_STATUS which holds the custom status value & its corresponding system status value are stored in DAS_STATUS column.
11. For the imported appointments, the status given in HL7 file are added as User status and its corresponding system status are added as appointment status in table TRN_APPOINTMENTS .