Allscripts Enterprise EHR - OID SSMT Fundamentals

Q & A

Are you planning on covering flowsheets?

Not on our OID Webcast series, but we have discussed hosting a webinar for flowsheets. I'll make note of you request.

Can you user SSMT to copy from the Prod environment to test to keep systems in sync?

This depends on the volume and nature of data involved. If items are built in one enviroment, then copied into another environment, SSMT is a good option, but if items are being modified, and those modifications migrated with SSMT, make sure the systems are in sync before hand. If the systems are not in sync, the new rows could error out OR create duplicates that you don't want. For instance, if your Requested Performing Locations dictionary names were the slightly different in environments (Hospital Laboratory vs. Hospital Lab), an SSMT load into one environment would work, but would error out on the other.

In a practical sense, if you need to add one item, wouldn't you just add it in the dictionary? (*referring to the fact that the presenter created a single orderable using SSMT)

Yes, that would be an efficient and simpler way to do it. In this case, I just used a single entry into SSMT for training purposes.

Checking 'Inactive' drives the OID Mode in the dictionay to flip from 'Active' to 'No Longer Needed', but changing the OID Mode status to 'No Longer Used' does not flip the 'Inactive' flag?

Correct. I don't know if this is a bug. Another note regarding this is that I mentioned during the webinar that a possible entry into the OID Mode column is 'No Longer User'. This is incorrect. Instead, the entry is 'Inactive'.