CPRS Config: Notifications

Welcome to the Notifications Configuration Page.

What Are Notifications?

It's a message generated by the system at specific events. Notifications are the closest thing to an SMS text message you will get in VISTA. Notifications are intended to be more 'real time' than a mail message in mailman is, in that VISTA keeps bugging you until you process them. Some common messages are:

• Lab Results
• Note needs to be signed
• Order needs to be signed
• New Consult

You have to be very careful on how you configure notifications: not to deliver too many, and they actually are processed by the users. Many patient related events are relayed through the notification system; as such, proper use is essential to the functioning of VISTA as an EMR.

Notifications are handled by the alert system in the kernel. All notifications are alerts; but not all alerts are notifications. An alert is a notification only if it has a patient associated with it.

Pre Configuration

For each, you need to ask these questions?

• On/Off/Mandatory?
• Who should get the notification? The user who entered it?; the provider under whom the order was written?; the OE/RR Team?

For some, you may need to ask these questions, but usually these settings are adjusted later.

• Urgency of Notification (High/Medium/Low)
• Should Deletion happen when a single person processes it, or when all recipients process it?
• Should a certain entity (person or group) always get the notification?

Here is the list of Notifications that comes with VISTA. Some of them are duds, like the one for Order Co-Signature (there is no such thing in VISTA: only note co-signature). Of note, TIU does not use this list for generating notifications; it uses its own settings. You can completely have notifications shut down, but TIU will still generate them if TIU is in use.

ABNORMAL IMAGING RESULTS
ABNORMAL LAB RESULT (INFO)
ABNORMAL LAB RESULTS (ACTION)
ADMISSION
ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY RESULTS
CONSULT/PROC INTERPRETATION
CONSULT/REQUEST CANCEL/HOLD
CONSULT/REQUEST RESOLUTION
CONSULT/REQUEST UPDATED
CRITICAL LAB RESULT (INFO)
CRITICAL LAB RESULTS (ACTION)
DC ORDER
DECEASED PATIENT
DISCHARGE
DNR EXPIRING
ERROR MESSAGE
FLAGGED OI EXPIRING - INPT
FLAGGED OI EXPIRING - OUTPT
FLAGGED OI ORDER - INPT
FLAGGED OI ORDER - OUTPT
FLAGGED OI RESULTS - INPT
FLAGGED OI RESULTS - OUTPT
FLAG ORDER FOR CLARIFICATION
FOOD/DRUG INTERACTION
FREE TEXT
IMAGING PATIENT EXAMINED
IMAGING REQUEST CANCEL/HELD
IMAGING REQUEST CHANGED
IMAGING RESULTS
IMAGING RESULTS AMENDED
LAB ORDER CANCELED
LAB RESULTS
LAB THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
MAMMOGRAM RESULTS
MEDICATIONS EXPIRING - INPT
MEDICATIONS EXPIRING - OUTPT
NEW ORDER
NEW SERVICE CONSULT/REQUEST
NPO DIET MORE THAN 72 HRS
ORDER CHECK
ORDERER-FLAGGED RESULTS
ORDER REQUIRES CHART SIGNATURE
ORDER REQUIRES CO-SIGNATURE
ORDER REQUIRES ELEC SIGNATURE
PAP SMEAR RESULTS
SERVICE ORDER REQ CHART SIGN
STAT IMAGING REQUEST
STAT ORDER
STAT RESULTS
TRANSFER FROM PSYCHIATRY
UNSCHEDULED VISIT
UNVERIFIED MEDICATION ORDER
UNVERIFIED ORDER
URGENT IMAGING REQUEST