Allow eForms to access the current provider-specific fax and phone fields
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#1311 Allow eForms to access the current provider-specific fax and phone fields
Change Description (incl. Benefits)
Allow eForms to access the current provider-specific fax and phone fields.
There is a provider page, that allows a custom workphone and fax set for each provider.
The fields on the edit provider page are called xml_p_fax, and workphone.
These then are used for prescriptions and faxes.
There seems to be no way to call these fields from an eForm.
The benefits from this would be the same as why there are custom phone/emails available for prescriptions and faxes. In this office it would be that the consults from the specialists to the one of 2 GPs go the GPs own specific fax machine, so that it eliminates the wasted time sorting though the incoming faxes of the 2 doctors to be read: they are already sorted by coming to the correct fax machine.
I looked through the list of all the standard database tags available, and none listed that I see refer to the provider's custom fax nor phone [appended to the bottom of this post]. I asked my Oscar service provider to look into it, and stumped him to fix this.
If this feature is not done already, I will make a bounty available ($200.00 Canadian?).
OSCAR Interaction points
Unsure of the meaning of this. I reckon 'eForms'.
Integration risks
I don't know.
Seems unlikely to cause a problem, since the fields aren't currently in eForms, so users would have to deliberately add the fields to their forms.
Risk if not incorporated
Won't break things. Just an odd duck out, that the prescriptions and consult requests can have custom provider-specific phones and faxes, but eForms seemingly cannot.
Minimum testing requirements/process
In Oscar 12_1.
Edit a provider in Admin.
Set the custom phone and fax for a provider.
Go to make an eForm to reference that phone and fax. Seems undocumented or unaccessible.
Training requirements to support changes
None
Time Estimate
Unsure. It would depend how easy it is to add an interface tag to reference that underlying field.
Current database tags in Oscar 12_1:
today appt_date current_user current_user_ohip_no current_user_specialty_code current_user_cpsid current_user_id patient_name first_last_name patient_nameL patient_nameF patient_id label address addressline address_street_number_and_name province city postal dob dobc dobc2 dob_year dob_month dob_day NameAddress hin hinc hinversion hc_renew_date chartno phone phone2 cell phone_extension phone2_extension age ageComplex sex social_family_history other_medications_history medical_history dxregistry OHIPdxCode ongoingconcerns reminders allergies_des allergies_des_no_archived recent_rx today_rx druglist_generic druglist_trade druglist_line doctor doctor_ohip_no doctor_specialty_code doctor_cpsid provider_name provider_name_first_init doctor_work_phone referral_name referral_address referral_phone referral_fax referral_no appt_provider_name appt_provider_id appt_no clinic_name clinic_phone clinic_fax clinic_label clinic_addressLine clinic_addressLineFull clinic_address clinic_city clinic_province other_medications_history medical_history dxregistry OHIPdxCode ongoingconcerns reminders allergies_des allergies_des_no_archived recent_rx today_rx druglist_generic druglist_trade druglist_line doctor doctor_ohip_no doctor_specialty_code doctor_cpsid provider_name provider_name_first_init doctor_work_phone referral_name referral_address referral_phone referral_fax referral_no appt_provider_name appt_provider_id appt_no clinic_name clinic_phone clinic_fax clinic_label clinic_addressLine clinic_addressLineFull clinic_address clinic_city clinic_province
Appendum: there is a doctor_work_phone (seems to work),
but no doctor_fax in list of tags, and doctor_fax and doctor_work_fax doesnt seem to work.
There is a:
referral_phone
referral_fax
but these dont seem to work either.
It would be best to use the phone and fax of the doc that is the primary care provider for them as per the one list on their demographic page, as it solves locum docs for either doc, and lets shared receptionists print out one too.
Last edit: Robert O'Connor 2016-02-01