Allegheny Messages

Available with Main Office and Clinical Point of Care Software Version updates dated 10/1/2014 or later, several upgrades have been added to the Control Board.  A new button is available from the Main Menu screen of the software for the Cert. Period Control Boards allowing users to work specifically with the Control Board for an agency’s patients.  The Patient Control field will allow selection of a specific patient from the agency database.  The function of the Control Record, 485, Therapy, Nursing, HHA and MSW sections remain unchanged.  The CIS button will now allow a user to visualize for an employee being scheduled the number of visits already scheduled for a particular day.  A new SR button has been provided on the main control board screen and within the CIS screen which will provide access to the Schedule Roster screen.  The Schedule Roster screen will allow a scheduler to view and manipulate (transfer or reassign) scheduled visits for both patient and employees.  A new field has been added to the Schedule Roster screen allowing selection of a specific Patient.  Applying the filter will display only the employees assigned by discipline from the Therapy screen for that patient.  When the SR button is selected from with in the CIS screen the patient name will default to the patient whose visits are being scheduled.  The’ PPS What if’ button is now available from the main Control Board screen to assist in evaluating margin estimates with the anticipated visits for a patient episode.  Both Patient and Employee schedule calendars have been added in key access areas to assist in coordinating and manipulating schedules.

Agencies utilizing the software in the Managed Hosting environment will now be able to indicate for a specific employee from their Clinical Workstation settings in the MISC tab of the employee database that the Employee cannot add schedules or visits in the Clinical Point of Care software.   These specified employees will only be able to convert a scheduled visit created in the main office to a visits and attach physical assessment data.  This provides agencies with the ability to manage patient schedules and visit frequency from the Control Board in the main office software.  If an additional visit or scheduled visit is required through the course of the episode the scheduled visit must be added from the main office.  The software will prompt the user for the additional generation of a Physician Order.  A new button in the Control Board will provide Warnings for visits with Order required/Not sent, Order required/Not returned, Order required/Signed, and Order Required/denied.  These warnings coincide with an additional field available for completion within the Scheduled Visit screen in the main software for the Additional Visit Order Status.