Determining the Content for a Watchdog Alert

The Watchdog alert leverages the Expression Editor (Building an Expression) to build alert conditions.

To determine the Content for a Watchdog alert:

1. Open or create a Watchdog alert (Creating Alerts).
2. Select the Content tab.
3. In the Alert Definition box, click the specific conditions link. (For RL6:Infection, type in an expression.)
4. From the Expression Editor dialog, set your conditions (Building an Expression). Click OK to save the expression and return to the Alert Properties window.
5. Click OK to save and close the alert, or click another tab to continue making configurations.
6. Note: FilesThe electronic record created when a user submits an incident report, such as a fall or medication error, or when a patient provides feedback. Some organizations refer to files as events, reports, or cases. located by a watchdog alert will only be included in alert notifications one time (files meeting the alert definition are placed on the BlacklistAn RL6 feature that tracks sent alert notifications and controls the re-distribution of notifications when an alert is triggered multiple times at scheduled intervals. When there is a new alert, the Alert processor checks the Blacklist to determine whether or not a notification should be sent to a recipient. If no entry of a prior notification is found, a new notification will be sent to the recipient. But if a notification was sent earlier, no duplicate notification will be sent unless the Repeat Alert option in the Alert properties is checked or when there is an update to a related patient file. The black-list can be thought of as a do not call list. For all modules except Infection, the Blacklist is a combination of alert, user and file ID. For Infection, the Blacklist is a combination of alert, user and matching criteria of the alert definition.. Other alert types allow you to include the file in the notification until that file no longer meets the alert definition requirements (Alert Properties).

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