Endoscopy Ordering Workflow

The Endoscopy Report and Pathology Order (ERPO) workflow specifies a series of workflows where gastroenterological endoscopy is conducted on the order from the hospital information system located outside of the endoscopy department and the endoscopy report returned to the system.

Summary

The Endoscopy Report and Pathology Order (ERPO) workflow specifies a series of workflows where gastroenterological endoscopy is conducted on the order from the hospital information system located outside of the endoscopy department and the endoscopy report returned to the system.

Benefits

Reduce Errors and Enhance Patient Care

Prevents manual data entry errors by ensuring that a particular piece of data is entered only once.
Prevents delays in patient care by making relevant information available at the point of care.

Improve Throughput

Saves manual data entry time by ensuring that a particular piece of data is entered only once.

Reduce Deployment Cost/Time

Prevents custom interface specification time and expense.
Prevents custom interface implementation time and expense.
Reduces interface compliance testing time and expense.
Reduces intersystem testing time and expense.
Reduces custom interface maintenance time and expense by maintaining a single interface (IHE) instead of multiple custom interfaces.

Details

The following workflow shows the process of an endoscopy examination that includes ordering, endoscopy procedure and finally submits observation report. Endoscopy is scheduled on the order that Order Placer generates and the information that is required to make a pathology order is sent from Report Creator to Order Placer on the completion of the observation report. Upon the completion of the observation report, the Report Creator provides the observation report to the Order Placer. Then the Order Filler identifies the Exam End when it receives the task completion notification from the Report Creator.

Systems Affected

Systems involved in this profile are:

Enterprise-wide information systems that manage patient registration and services ordering (e.g., registration system and Hospital Information System (HIS))
Endoscopy departmental information systems that manage department scheduling (e.g., Endoscopy Information System (EIS))
Report Creator provides the observation report to the Pathology Order Trigger Receiver. (Pathology Order Trigger Receiver is expected to analyze the report to find if pathology order is necessary and notify the result to the order placer; however, the expectation is out of scope of this profile.)