HL7 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2.1.1
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Requirements: AS.6.5 Support Waiting Room Management (Function)

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Statement N:

Provide support to waiting room management.

 Description I:

An EHR-S should support the reporting, tracking and alerts needed to help managethose patients that need to wait and supporting prioritization decisions by the clinicians who are caring for them.

 Actors:
ehr Criteria N:
AS.6.5#01 SHALL

The system SHALL present a list of triaged patients.
AS.6.5#02 SHOULD

The system SHOULD provide the ability to present triaged patients filtered and sorted simultaneously by multiple criteria, such as provider, ward, triage acuity rating and wait time.
AS.6.5#03 MAY

The system MAY render an alert when a parameter has been exceeded, such as the number of patients waiting, or the length of wait time.
AS.6.5#04 SHOULD

The system SHOULD provide the ability to store information about wait times.