Alert Notification Types

There are various types of alert notifications:

• Follow-up Activity – notifies you when a change has been made to a follow-up activity.
• HL7Health Level-7 is an international set of open standards used to format data and content, allowing different health information systems to easily and effectively communicate with one another. ADTAdmission, Discharge and Transfer data. – notifies you when there is a specified ADT activity for a patient with an existing file.
• No Activity – notifies you when a file remains in one state for a certain number of days, as defined by your administrator. This alert ensures that files are not overlooked.
• Surveillance – risk surveillance is the ability to create alerts based on patient-specific clinical and administrative information, which is actively monitored by the RL6:Infection product. When a patient is found to match the conditions of an alert definition, a notification is created that makes people aware of the patient and their situation. A surveillance alert can only be created in RL6:Infection.
• Note: To run surveillance alerts you need to have the RL6:Infection product installed The types of alerts that can be created will be dependent on the types of real-time interfaces implemented in RL6:Infection.
• Volume – notifies you when files meeting specific conditions (such as an incident severity level of High, claim status of Potential or when the organism Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus has been added to a file) reach a defined number, percentage, or percentage change over time. This alert helps you manage your files to predefined goals.
• Watchdog – notifies you when files meet specific conditions, such as when medical equipment from a particular manufacturer is identified as the cause of the incident or a particular physician is named as a defendant in a claim the MRSA organism is added to a file for an individual in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).