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Teach a man to fish… One of my staff needed to create a custom lookup in a MEDITECH NPR report to show the “mapped from” and “mapped to” values for a particular BAR.CLAIM map, and he asked me, “Have you ever done that?” The dictionary looks like…
One of many nice things about the MEDITECH system is the availability of date mnemonics that you can use, either when running reports interactively, or when scheduling them. But this functionality is not available in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) or in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)…
This example is based on how discharge text data is formatted in the MEDITECH MAGIC Data Repository (DR). In the continuing saga of trying to recreate patient discharge instructions from the DR, I discovered that among the complications is detecting where line breaks should actually go. Set…
In my experience, hospitals typically don’t add any kind of PHI access logging to their Data Repository reports. This seems like a gap in PHI monitoring. It may be true that HIPAA provides an exemption from “disclosure reporting” for access to PHI for treatment, billing, or government…
What’s in a name? In teaching NPR, RD, and SQL from DR, a big chunk of my time is spent helping students figure out where data is kept (for example, which segment in NPR), and then what field names are called. MEDITECH segment structures and field names…
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