Using Cognos2 to keep track of patients
This page explains how the components of Cognos2 should be used together to keep track of patients.
Cognos2 consists of the following components:
Steps
Finding new admissions
Any new admission will result in a new service start. Use the Cognos2 Service Starter to find all new admissions. Records that have been added show up green, records that have not yet been added show up white. Enter all new records, including records where the patient is still in the ER (i.e. not clear yet if they will ever reach a unit or become what we used to think of as an EMIP / ECIP). When you enter a record, it opens in Patient Viewer Tab Cognos ADT2 where you can also enter any other services and units that patient is listed for in the Cognos data.
Finding new unit arrivals
Patients who are already entered and have changed location after admission can be found on the Cognos2 Unit Starter. This would catch any patients that were still in the ER when they were processed in Cognos2 Service Starter. You can open patients from here to enter the unit, and to make any required changes to the Record field. Once a corresponding entry exists in Boarding Loc the record will disappear off the Cognos2 Unit Starter.
Finding discharges
Use Cognos2 Ender to find either discharges or changes to another service. Use it to find all records that have a service ending time that doesn't have either a matching Dispo entry or a matching new Service tmp entry; once one of those is entered the record will disappear from this list.
Finish older records
Use Patient List as before to work through entering and sending discharged patients you were not just able to finish off on initial review.
Limits
Background
We initially were trying to do this with Cognos Report Integrator / Using Cognos Report Integrator to keep track of patients but the format of the data was hard to use, so this replaces it.
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