see also:
Enterprise Patient/Veteran Search Function
The Enterprise Search Function uses Master Veteran Index (MVI) as the search database to retrieve a list of sites where patient records exists. This feature allows the user to enter traits of a patient (see figure 3-25) to see if a match exists. This functionality is available from the Tools menu.
Search Function
The following screenshot (Figure 3-23) is from the Patient Selector screen.
To initiate a search, click either the Enterprise Search button (Figure 3-23) or select Enterprise Search for a Patient from the Tool menu (Figure 3-24).
Figure 3-23
Figure 3-24
The Enterprise Search input form (Figure 3-25) allows the traits of a patient to be entered. The Person Traits are as follows:
The results from the Person Search displays in the Search Result memo box on the Enterprise Search form are processed depending on the results as follows:
Figure 3-25
“Legacy” Enterprise Search Functionality
The “Legacy” Enterprise Search button can be used to search all VAMC VistA systems to see where a patient has presented for care. This function allows the user to enter a combination of patient name and SSN to search through selected VAMC systems to see if a patient match exists. To initiate a “Legacy” Enterprise search, click the Legacy Search button.
The following is still available from the Legacy Search button.
Step 1 – Next to the Search For: field (Figure 2-23), the user may click the “?” button to receive instructions for entering specified search parameters.
Figure 2-23
Your search string should be the same text VistA or CAPRI would normally use for searching the patient file.
Examples:
* There is a limit of 50 items returned per search, per site.
Figure 2-24
Step 2 – Single site or multiple site searches can be done, as described below.
Searching one site: After entering patient search data, the user selects one site and then clicks Run Selected.
Figure 2-25
Searching all sites in list: After entering patient search data, the user clicks the Select All button, and then clicks Run Selected (Figure 2-26).
Figure 2-26
Searching multiple sites: After entering patient search data, the user selects one site with the first mouse-click and then holds the control key on the keyboard while selecting the names of other sites. After choosing all desired sites, the user clicks Run Selected (Figure 2-27).
Figure 2-27
Searching a group of sites in the list: After entering patient search data, the user selects one site, holds the shift key on the keyboard, and clicks the last site in the grouping search. Then, the user clicks Run Selected (Figure 2-28).
Figure 2-28
Step 3 – Potential Matches received after running a selected search parameter are shown in Figure 2-29. The user can move the vertical scroll bar to see the complete list.
Figure 2-29
If CAPRI is unable to connect to a selected site, that information is reported (Figure 2-30).
Figure 2-30