User Guide

Using the Consults Package with Medicine

If your site is set up for attaching Medicine results to consults, and there are results available, then Consults prompts you to attach relevant results during the Complete/Update action.

In this example, we attach medicine results to a consult we are completing:

CONSULT TRACKING Jun 21, 2000 14:23:01 Page: 1 of 3

CPRSPATIENT,FOUR 666-43-8796 2B M DEC 4,1949 (50)

Wt.(lb): No Entry

Requested St No. Consult/Procedure Request 

1 05/16/00 a 1719 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

2 05/15/00 c 1718 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

3 02/09/00 p 1679 Holter Monitoring CARDIOLOGY Cons

4 06/18/99 a 1538 PACEMAKER SURVEILLANCE CARDIOLOGY Proc

5 04/07/99 c 1433 Holter Monitoring CARDIOLOGY Cons

6 06/11/98 pr 1047 CARDIOLOGY Cons

7 09/24/97 c 341 *CARDIOLOGY Cons

8 02/03/97 dc 209 CARDIOLOGY Cons

9 07/28/95 c 94 ECHO CARDIOLOGY Proc

10 07/20/95 c 88 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

11 07/20/95 c 87 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

12 04/23/92 c 64 *ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

+ Enter ?? for more actions

SP Select Patient FR Forward CT Complete/Update RT Results Display

CV Change View ... CX Cancel (Deny) MA Make Addendum PF Print Form 513

RC Receive DC Discontinue SF Sig Findings RM Remove Med Rslt

SC Schedule CM Add Comment DD Detailed Display ER Edit/Resubmit

Select: Next Screen// CT Complete/Update

 

CHOOSE No. 1-32: 1

Attach Medicine Results? Y// ES

 

Procedure/Medicine Resulting Jun 21, 2000 14:29:50 Page: 1 of 1 

CPRSPATIENT,FOUR 666-43-8796 2B M DEC 4,1949 (50)

Available Medicine Results

Type of Proc. Procedure Date Summary 

1 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM AUG 13,1997 ABNORMAL

2 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM JUL 31,1995@08:04 NORMAL

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select action or item number

AR Associate Result DR Display selected medicine result

Select action: Quit//

 

Notice that when we tried to complete a consult with available Medicine results, Consults prompted us, “Attach Medicine Results?” By responding affirmatively we are presented a screen with a list of the qualifying Medicine results and the ability to both explore these results and attach one or more of them to the consult.

For this to happen, two things must have taken place:

 

1.      Your CAC or IRM must have defined certain procedures as qualifying to provide results to your service.

2.      Those procedures must have been performed on your patient and the results entered into VistA.

 

In the following example, a medicine result is associated with the current consult and the complete action is finished:

Procedure/Medicine Resulting Jun 21, 2000 14:29:50 Page: 1 of 1 

CPRSPATIENT,FOUR 666-43-8796 2B M DEC 4,1949 (50)

Available Medicine Results

Type of Proc. Procedure Date Summary 

1 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM AUG 13,1997 ABNORMAL

2 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM JUL 31,1995@08:04 NORMAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select action or item number

AR Associate Result DR Display selected medicine result

Select action: Quit// AR Associate Result

 

Select item: (1-2): 1

 

ELECTROCARDIOGRAM AUG 13,1997 ABNORMAL

 

Are you sure you want to associate this result? NO// Y YES

 

Procedure/Medicine Resulting Jun 21, 2000 14:41:16 Page: 1 of 1

CPRSPATIENT,FOUR 666-43-8796 2B M DEC 4,1949 (50)

Available Medicine Results

Type of Proc. Procedure Date Summary

1 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM JUL 31,1995@08:04 NORMAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select action or item number

AR Associate Result DR Display selected medicine result

Select action: Quit// QUIT

 

Continue with Note Entry? Y// N NO

 

CONSULT TRACKING Jun 21, 2000 14:41:35 Page: 1 of 3

CPRSPATIENT,FOUR 666-43-8796 2B M DEC 4,1949 (50)

Wt.(lb): No Entry

Requested St No. Consult/Procedure Request

1 05/16/00 c 1719 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

2 05/15/00 c 1718 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

3 02/09/00 p 1679 Holter Monitoring CARDIOLOGY Cons

4 06/18/99 a 1538 PACEMAKER SURVEILLANCE CARDIOLOGY Proc

5 04/07/99 c 1433 Holter Monitoring CARDIOLOGY Cons

6 06/11/98 pr 1047 CARDIOLOGY Cons

7 09/24/97 c 341 *CARDIOLOGY Cons

8 02/03/97 dc 209 CARDIOLOGY Cons

9 07/28/95 c 94 ECHO CARDIOLOGY Proc

10 07/20/95 c 88 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

11 07/20/95 c 87 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

12 04/23/92 c 64 *ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CARDIOLOGY Proc

+ Enter ?? for more actions

SP Select Patient FR Forward CT Complete/Update RT Results Display

CV Change View ... CX Cancel (Deny) MA Make Addendum PF Print Form 513

RC Receive DC Discontinue SF Sig Findings RM Remove Med Rslt

SC Schedule CM Add Comment DD Detailed Display ER Edit/Resubmit

Select: Next Screen//
Notice that after we exited the Procedure/Medicine Resulting screen, we were prompted about entering a note. If we had responded with a Yes, we would have been able to attach a TIU note to the consult we were closing in addition to the Medicine results.