Synchronizing Dictionaries
With the acquisition of four new facilities, Guelph General Hospital needed to merge critical patient and financial information. As a result, the need to maintain current data records in all departments, across all locations, took on an even more significant role.
With the prospect of such a massive influx of information, updating each of the departmental data dictionaries at each facility looked like a monumental task for GGH. Manual synchronization is too time-consuming and too prone to the errors and mistakes that human entry can cause.
GGH chose to use UNISON and saved about 40 percent of the time they had planned for dictionary building. The first phase included dictionary synchronizations for order entry, patient care inquiry (PCI), lab, transcription and radiology departments. In preparation for the opening of a radiology clinic, GGH built a number of new dictionary entries. Once the testing was done, GGH faced the challenge of moving the information from test to its live environment, including MEDITECH $T and Magic dictionaries. With UNISON, GGH avoided the need to duplicate its efforts and ensured what was done in test was reliably copied to the live environment.
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