User Manual Part 6

Managing patients
2001989-301A- draft 1 ApexPro™ 6-13
To bypass the manual entry of the patient demographic information, you can search
for and retrieve the information from a networked database.
WARNING
INCORRECT ALGORITHMS, ARRHYTHMIA PROCESSING,
AND CALCULATIONS BASED ON PATIENT AGE—After
manually updating or automatically retrieving patient demographic
information from a network database, always confirm that the
entered patient's date of birth matches the patient's actual date of
birth. Otherwise the appropriate age-related algorithms, arrhythmia
detection, and calculations will not be applied.
NOTE
Retrieving patient demographic information from a networked database requires
a Hospital Information System (HIS). You may also know the HIS as an Aware
Gateway or as a Quantitative Sentinel (QS).
NOTE
When using the patient’s last name or first name as your search criteria,
remember to delete the default patient identification number 999999999 from the
Patient ID data field.
NOTE
When using a patient identification number as your search criteria, the CIC Pro
center cannot successfully search for and match patient identification numbers
containing lowercase letters. The CIC Pro center can successfully search for and
match patient identification numbers containing all numbers or a combination of
numbers and upper case letters.
Complete the following procedure to retrieve patient demographic information from a
networked database:
1. From the Admit window, type one of the following patient search criteria into the
appropriate data field:
 Medical record number (patient identification number)
 Last name
 Room number
 Bed number
2. Click Request Admit Info to display a list of possible patient matches and their
demographic information.
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