My responses are below. We went from decentralized to centralized a year ago.
-----Original Message----- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Goedicke Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:57 PM To: Meditech-L (E-mail) Subject: [MEDITECH-L] CWS questions We are in the beginning stages of setting up a Centralized Scheduling office. I would appreciate feedback from any facility who may already have a centralized scheduling office up and running. We currently already use the Community Wide Scheduling module of Meditech but we are using it in a de-centralized fashion. Listed below is the main information I am looking for at this point but I welcome any other input that you may have. 1. How many schedulers do you have and what are the office hours of your scheduling office? 9 schedulers and 1 coordinator, hrs of operation=M-F 6a-9p, not sure what they are now on Saturday if any..were 8a-12pm 2. Do you have an OR module and if so, what are you using? Just went live with Meditech's ORM in Feb 2007 3. Do you schedule inpatient rooms, i.e. surgery overflow patients? No 4. What departments are scheduled through the centralized scheduling office, i.e. Surgery, Outpatient RAD, Outpatient LAB, Physician clinics, etc.? The Sched dept does all radiology areas, respiratory/pulmonary/ekg, cardiac rehab, nutrition, some lab tests such as glucose tolerance tests,sweat tests, all other labs are walk ins. Surgery is scheduled by the OR secretaries. Physician clinics and chemo is scheduled by the clinic dept. 5. Do you have any job descriptions that you could send me for the schedulers? I can get them from HR if you would like them. 6. Is the scheduling department it's own department or does it fall under the umbrella of another department, i.e. Patient Accounting, Admissions, etc.? Their manager is Manager of Pt Registration/Scheduling but they have a coordinator who is just scheduling 7. Are you doing any type of Medical Necessity checking during the scheduling process? They do use ARM for authorizations and are working on implementing a medical necessity piece now. Responses can be sent to the following email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Dena Daniel Assistant Director of Information Technology Jackson County Memorial Hospital 1200 E. Pecan, P.O. Box 8190 Altus, OK 73521 580-481-2368 posted by: Paul Goedicke IT Analyst III Jackson County Memorial Hospital 1200 E.Pecan, Altus, OK 73521 Phone: (580) 477-7485 Fax: (580) 477-7366 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The documents accompanying this transmission contain confidential information, belonging to the sender, that is legally privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. The authorized recipient of this information is prohibited from disclosing this information after its stated need has been fulfilled. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the contents of these documents is strictly prohibited. Violators may be prosecuted. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the transmitted information. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.COM. To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. For help, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list meditech-l@MTUsers.com http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.COM. To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. For help, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list meditech-l@MTUsers.com http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
