Function documentationJoint Planning (Multi-Appointment)

 

Joint planning enables the user to allocate appointments for all surgery/treatment items when creating a clinical order in one planning step. You can determine time-related dependencies of surgery/treatment items in the appointment templates.

See Planning Joint Appointments

Example Example

A general health check-up consists of an EKG examination, then a blood sample, and finally a urine sample. The appointments for the individual examinations are bound to chronological sequence which determines that the appointment for the blood sample can be planned one hour after the EKG examination, at the earliest, and half an hour before the urine examination.

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Joint planning is intended as a support when creating and changing a clinical order and therefore supports the entry of clinical orders and the planning of appointments for order items by a central facility.

Caution Caution

Joint planning is not available for collective orders.

See Create Several Clinical Orders in a Collective Order

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As a basis for joint planning you determine the chronological sequence of the individual appointment templates for the order items of a clinical order. You always define the dependency between an appointment template of an order item and the subsequent appointment template of the next order item.

Note Note

The system saves appointments from joint planning as an Appointment Series for each order. Post-processing functions for appointment series are therefore available.

See Editing Appointment Series

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Caution Caution

If an item is cyclically ordered in a clinical order, joint planning is not available.

This function is available to you if you have activated the business function Clinical System Situation-Based Clinical Documentation (ISHMED_SCD).

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You can use the organizational unit-related parameter N1MAPPADEP to control, whether the appointment dependencies (minimum interval, maximum interval, and time unit) should be transferred into the appointments.

You should note, however, that the number of appointments in the series is predetermined by the number of order items you planned. You cannot add or remove any appointments from this series.

You can determine appointment dependencies as follows:

  • When customizing a profile type (order type)

    You can define the sequence and appointment dependencies of order items which are always created together using a profile type as a clinical order, in the profile type. The system presets these appointment dependencies when creating a clinical order with this profile type in the appointment template.

    If the user selects one or more elemental types of a profile type from the order type selection list when creating a clinical order, which are part of a profile type, the system transfers the dependencies from the profile type, providing these can be transferred (e.g. selection of elemental types B and C, which have an appointment dependency entered in the profile type).

    See Other Tab Page

  • in the Appointment Template of an order item of a clinical order

    You can determine the sequence and appointment dependencies of order items directly when entering appointment templates for the order items of a clinical order (if they are not already defined in the customizing of a profile type).

    Note Note

    An order item can only have one appointment dependency to a predecessor item and a successor item, as the system saves the jointly planned appointments as an appointment series.

    You cannot define dependencies for admission items. The order type selection list in the appointment template does not contain admission items. The Dependencies tab page is not available in an admission item.

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The input fields for the definition of dependencies in the appointment template are taken into account in the interface of the Business Add-In (BAdI) N_APP_CONSTR_CHG.

You can find detailed information in the Implementation Guide under Start of the navigation path Industry-Specific Component Clinical System Next navigation step Planning Next navigation step Visit Appointments Next navigation step Search for Free Appointments Next navigation step BAdI for Controlling Appointment Templates End of the navigation path.

Note Note

You can display and change the dependencies of the order items in the clinical order entered in the appointment template by choosing Start of the navigation path Planning Next navigation step Dependencies End of the navigation path.

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