Overdue and Expiration Intervals

The Overdue Intervals apply to Orderable Items. These fields tell the system when to generate an overdue order task or an expired order task based on the priority defaults.

The Priority Defaults are as follows

ASAP: Order is to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

Pre-Op: Order must be fulfilled prior to an operation (surgical procedure).

Routine: Order is standard part of a procedure and may be scheduled to be fulfilled routinely.

Stat: Order fulfillment is the highest priority and must be fulfilled immediately.

Today: Order fulfillment must occur the same day as the order is created.

Things you should knwo before adding your intervals

The default for a new orderable item is 0

The maximum value of an overdue or expired Order is 365

0 means that the order will never expire or become overdue

any number over 365 will be processed in the EHR as 365. Even if it allows you to enter it, it will never exceed 365.

In Brief

If you want someone to be notified of a asap order that is 30 days overdue, you would set the asap overdue field to 30.

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