We have a test patient in live called TEST,DUMMY. He is registered in a location like HR that is not included in stats. We rarely use him, but if we do anything that causes charges, we let Financial people know, so that they can adjust accordingly.
I hope this helps. Michelle Michelle Pivonka, RN Systems Analyst Information Services Sinai Health System (773) 257-6020 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sinai.org "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill ________________________________ From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Griffith Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 4:32 PM To: 'Freeman, Gale'; 'Molenhuis, Henry'; meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Dummy Patients There was a lively discussion on this topic on the Meditech-L about a year ago. The opinions were about evenly split between those who said "No, Never!" and those who said, "Of course we use test patients in Live". I am in the latter category. No matter how much testing you do in Test, you cannot guarantee that the setup is correct in Live until you test it. Better to test it on a dummy patient than a real one.... Rich Griffith Coordinator, Info Mgmt, QM & Compliance Hagerstown Medical Laboratory Washington County Health System Voice: 301-665-4906 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Freeman, Gale Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:55 PM To: Molenhuis, Henry; meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Dummy We do not use dummy patients in live. only in test . -----Original Message----- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Molenhuis, Henry Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 8:45 AM To: meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Dummy Hello, Does anyone have a "dummy" patient in LIVE. We would like to use some for testing new procedures in LIVE and also for Quality assurance specimens etc. How would you register them? What account type etc. etc. would you use so it would not affect statistics that we need to submit to government (Canada) Thanks ***** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ***** This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.
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