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Most, if not all of us involved in US healthcare are familiar with the National Provider Identifier (NPI), which is a 10-digit number starting with a 1 or a 2. Each NPI uniquely identifies a specific provider. The provider can be a person or organization. NPIs are…
Note From Iatric Systems: Thank you very much to Carl Smith, CIO of King’s Daughters Medical Center, for sharing his thoughts with us, and our blog readers, about protecting patient privacy. Brookhaven, Miss., a town with a population of about 12,000 residents, is where I call home….
Like ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes, LOINC codes offer a platform-independent way to identify medical laboratory observations. Within MEDITECH’s LAB module, LOINC codes are set up as a “nomenclature”—a code describing another code—or in this case, a LOINC standard code is mapped to each LAB test in…
One of the few custom objects you want to add to your MEDITECH LIVE or TEST Data Repository (DR) databases are indexes. An index can speed up reporting by fetching records based on specific fields, like Service Date. MEDITECH themselves release only a few indexes, mostly focused…
It’s common in MEDITECH’s 6.x Data Repository (DR) to encounter fields in PCM or EMR where a single long text field contains a packed data structure. For example, when a multi-select item has been stored with a variety of delimiters and special formatting. If you haven’t run…
