| DESCRIPTION | This option will update the appointment status for today's outpatientencounters. If an encounter has not been checked-in, no-showed or cancelled,then it will be given the status of 'NO ACTION TAKEN'. Such encounterswill not be used as part of NPCDB workload reporting. This option should be queued to be run daily. Also, this option will update any encounter date in the last thirty daysthat has not been updated. This will help keep the encounter datesupdated in case the option does not execute, for any reason, on aparticular date. Note: Inpatient encounters and encounters for 'non-count' clinics are not updated since they are not reported to Austin for workload credit. A Mailman message will be sent to the mail group specified by the APPT. UPDATE MAIL GROUP site parameter. The message will indicate the overall results of this background job by providing thefollowing information: o clinic o number of encounters that flagged as 'no action taken' o the total number of encounters o percentage flagged as 'no action taken' |