Outpatient
Appointment Bundling
nHBCIS system does not have an OP Episode ID,
the key to OP Appointment
records is very long, and complex.
nHow do we define an OP Episode, a Visit, a
series of OP Clinic visits, what about visits to other clinics within the
series.
nTALONS creates a pseudo episode built from
the clinic code, Auto mapped
from there to a clinic 4 digit number, add the Date of the clinic and the URNO, and we have the
episode Identifier.
nThe Appointments are processed for the
current month, next and previous months before XVI extracts commence. An index
is created (combined
with the EMERG index)
nClinics can be excluded from generating Episodes for
other utilisation to link
to. (
see also
see also
nWhere an IP or AE episode exists on same day, APP
utilisation will link to
that Episode rather than to clinic. (