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Object

Health Summary Objects are Health Summary Types saved in a temporary array for insertion into another electronic document.

Source: Health Summary V. 2.7 User Manual

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Object

Objects are a device to extract data from other VISTA packages to insert into boilerplate text of progress notes or discharge summaries. This is done by having a placeholder name embedded in the predefined boilerplate text of Titles, such as: “PATIENT AGE.” The creator of the Object types the placeholder name into the boilerplate text of a Title, enclosed by '|'s. If a Title has the following boilerplate text:

“Patient is a healthy |PATIENT AGE| year old male ...”

Then a user who enters such a note for a 56 year old patient would be presented with the text:

“Patient is a healthy 56 year old male ...” where the age for this specific patient is pulled from the patient database.

Source: Text Integration Utilities V. 1.0 Clinical Coordinator & User Manual

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This is a Glossary term from the VistA Documentation Library