Question

You are the EHR training specialist with Lincoln County Hospital. You are meeting with the registration staff to review the appropriate procedures for searching for patients. What steps should those procedures contain? Create a checklist for the registrars to follow when determining whethera patient is new or established. A BI E

Answer 1

EHR electronic health record system is the most simplest and systematic method to aid in patient registration

To start with patient registration we have to define patient identifiers like In patient No,or Lincoln county hospital no,patients name .

Lincoln county hospital no is a unique no given to all patients visiting the hospital for any form of services ipd or Opd .

For searching the patients we can use hospital no,name,admkssion no,doctors unit ,

Patient admission no is the no given to admitted patients .

To determine whether the patient is new or established the checklist should include

Full name of the patient

Hospital unique no

Registration card

Phone no

Previous hospitalization

When

Where

Previous surgery

When

Where

Doctors unit

Phone no can help in finding the registered patient in the system