CCTOS Common : Communications and Notifications

• Objective:
  • A way to "push" information toward colleagues in the network.  A prerequisite in order to support collaborative work in a Care Team.
    
• Short description:
  • Derived from Item and working as a kind of Email.  The content of a notification is normally just a link to some information already available on-line in the database.
    
  • Reception of a notification:
    • A notification is a short messages containing just a reference to information already in the regional data base, to which a colleague should pay attention.
    • The person receiving notifications, sees a list of headers.  When clicking on a notification, the referred document is opened from the permanent patient record in the data base.
  • Creation of a notification:
    • The information already exist in the data base, just created or older.
    • Notifications are optional and 
    • Some notifications are automated, e.g. the author of a lab request must receive a notification as soon as a result is available.
  • Compatibility with traditional messaging systems:
    • Ability to receive messages:
      • If a reliable identification is available, the information is immediately added in the patient record.  Otherwise it remain waiting in a file, until the identification is confirmed.
    • Ability to send notifications with the full content.
  • Subscriptions:
    • Members of the care team could "subscribe" to a patient record and receive a notification every time some event occurs in the patient record.  This is particularly useful for the referent doctor.