Setting up Required fields for Immunizations Processing

For more efficient order processing and best clinical practices, your practice may need to set up certain fields as required. Required fields (or Mandatory Data Points) can be set up for all of the order types, that is, Lab, Radiology, and Immunizations. For example, your practice wants the Diagnosis field to be required when ordering a lab or radiology test; or, if you are ordering Immunizations, your practice determines Route and Expired Date should be required fields. You can set up fields as required in File Maintenance Practice Preferences.

During the Immunizations ordering workflow, the required fields display as Red on the appropriate Immunizations window when you start the Immunization process (for example, selecting a vaccine) and when you complete an immunization administration (on the Vaccine Details tab). Before an order can be saved, users must enter or select information for a required field.

Example: Your practice has determined that Route should be a required field when administering an immunization. Therefore, in File Maintenance, the user sets up this field as a Mandatory Data Point in the When completing vaccines administration context. When you administer an immunization, the Route field displays in Red on the Create New/Update Immunizations Order for patient name window (Vaccine Details tab).

Based on your practice needs and the Immunizations Order workflow, you may need to consider which fields to set up as required (or Mandatory Data Points) when selecting vaccines and then administering the Immunizations order. While most of the fields you would set up as required display on the Vaccines Details tab, there may be other fields your practice would like to set up as required when selecting vaccines or that can be applied to the entire order, such as Registry.