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D I A R Y
Here's how things should work: After we enter the patient's data in
the EMR, and register the patient in the HIS, the interface should link
them both for supply management, charging and billing. But if a single
space, comma or number is out of place, the systems won't merge the
patient. During testing, we've had schedulers from each department
completing data. Each scheduler was entering the data a little differently, however, so we've had many failures in our testing. This has
eaten up about a month's worth of work.
We're now focused on only 1 department and have only 2 people
entering data to send to the interface for IT, the interface builder and
the EMR staff to review for functionality. Waiting for each of them to
