| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
The Deputy Undersecretary for Health for Operations and Management (10N)
audits to discover and correct any patterns of inappropriate address
changes. An option created with this patch will facilitate the review of
the audits.
Audits consume disk space on the VistA system so audit results cannot be
stored indefinitely. Pharmacy Managers should negotiate a timeframe for
the regular review of the audits so that the audits can be purged from
the system when no longer needed. The suggested fields for auditing are:
STREET ADDRESS [LINE 1] (#.111)
convened a task force in April 2002 to review the controlled substance
STREET ADDRESS [LINE 2] (#.112)
STREET ADDRESS [LINE 3] (#.113)
CITY (#.114)
STATE (#.115)
ZIP CODE (#.116)
ZIP+4 (#.1112)
TEMPORARY STREET [LINE 1] (#.1211)
TEMPORARY STREET [LINE 2] (#.1212)
TEMPORARY STREET [LINE 3] (#.1213)
TEMPORARY CITY (#.1214)
process in VHA. The task force returned several recommendations. One of
TEMPORARY STATE (#.1215)
TEMPORARY ZIP CODE (#.1216)
TEMPORARY ZIP+4 (#.12112)
The new option exported with this patch is named Patient Address Changes
Report [PSO ADDRESS CHANGE REPORT], and will be placed under the
Supervisor Functions [PSO SUPERVISOR] menu option. This option prints a
report that shows changes made to the various address fields listed above
from the PATIENT file (#2), over the date range specified. The report can
the recommendations was to modify the Outpatient Pharmacy package to
be run for one patient, or for all patients. A field can only be tracked
and shown on this report if the VA FileMan AUDIT function was turned on
for the field at the time the field was edited.
provide a record of all address changes.
Medical Center Pharmacy Managers are encouraged to contact their IRM and
arrange the regular auditing of changes to address and temporary address
fields in the Patient file (#2). Pharmacy Managers should monitor these
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