The admin from GMF Lévis-les-Rivières believes not having to enter data in the 'Responsible Provider' field poses a great risk to patient safety. She mentioned one time when a patient had an abnormal mammography, and the MOA forgot to tag a physician.
She adds that the autopopulation of the field is counter-productive because it is frequent that the family doctor is not the one who ordered the test (e.g. walk-in clinic, assigned NP, etc.). She mentions that it is now an additional click to remove the family physician and add the correct one.
Workaround for that: Lock empty field before beginning the batch scanning
The ideal would be to have 'mandatory fields' preferences per clinic.
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Ms Jessica Tremblay suggests adding "Aucun professionnel" as a choice, in case the document is not to be sent to any provider.
Not necessarily mandatory but at least having a warning displayed when indexing to prevent forgetting to add a clinician for an important document.