When a patient visits a healthcare facility (or a care provider visits a patient), the information related to where the meetups/consultations happened are captured onto EMR. For example:
In some cases, there might be multiple 'Visit locations'. Imagine a big hospital which would like to segregate information based on the departments they have or representing more the operational setup they have.
Example:
This feature provides ability to have more than one visit open if they are not mapped to same location, so that we can sync visits from different location to the server location.
With this feature which is available from 0.83v, at least one location should be tagged as Visit Location. Visit Location is a location tag that is introduced.
To see the available locations tags in the system, one has to login to OpenMRS, click on Administration and then on Manage Location Tags. Please refer the image below which shows 3 location tags. |
Follow the below steps to tag a Location as Visit Location
Login to OpenMRS, click on Administration, Manage Locations, which displays the available locations in hierarchy (Refer the image below). Choose the location to tag as visit location from the ways below.
Below are the two ways of tagging locations as Visit Location.
One can choose to tag a location that is already tagged as Login Location as Visit Location also. In this case, this particular location is tagged as both Login and Visit Location.
In the image attached above with the list of available locations and the hierarchy, Subcentre 1 is tagged as Login Location and Visit Location. |
One can choose to tag the parent of login location in the hierarchy as Visit Location.
In the image attached above with the list of available locations and the hierarchy, Ganiyari is parent of login location and is also tagged as Visit Location. |
Click on the selected location to tag from the two ways of tagging mentioned above.
Choose Visit location by checking the box next to it as shown in the image below.
Click on Save Location
With this feature, it is mandatory to have a visit mapped to a location. |
Please use the one of the following queries to map the existing visits to a location. Use the below query when the exact location_id is known and replace visit_location_id with appropriate value
Use the below query when the location name is known and replace location_name with appropriate value
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Login to OpenMRS. Go to Administration, Manage Locations. Find the appropriate location. In the attached image below, Ganiyari Lab is the chosen location. Copy the uuid of the location.
Chosen location should be tagged as visit location (choosing one of the Ways of Tagging). In the above example, Ganiyari which is parent of Ganiyari Lab is tagged as Visit Location. |
Login to Openelis. Go to Administration, SiteInformation.
Edit the labLocation and fill in the value with valid uuid of location copied from Step 1. Save the information.
Please refer the above image displaying all the site information. Check the box next to lab location and click on edit. |
The UUID set as value in Step 3 and UUID copied from OpenMRS in Step 1 should be same |