One of the key features of Clinician is its ability to secure information across a large and open network of computers and the people that use them. This network is called a Facility. The security of this network is critical because Clinician provides access to confidential patient information, including laboratory test results and medical history.
Before you can log in to Clinician, you must have a user account consisting of a login name and a password. The user account provides the needed security for controlling access to the network, and identifies you while you are using the system.
When you log in to Clinician, you connect to the network on behalf of a Facility. A facility is any business, including a hospital, clinic, physician office, laboratory, payer or employer with a contract to use Clinician.
Through your user account, you are linked to one or more facilities. You may be allowed to log in to the Clinician network on behalf of more than one facility. For example, your primary facility may be the office in which you are currently working; however, there may be times when need to access the network on behalf of a hospital where you have patients in order to check on their status. In this case, you will be linked to both facilities, your office and the hospital.
When working with reports, you may come across the terms facility and sponsor users. This distinction is important because it determines what information a user may have access to and what functions he or she can perform.
A Facility user is a user whose login is associated with a Facility and not with a Sponsor. A Facility may be associated with one or more Sponsors. An example of a Facility is a physician practice.
A Sponsor user is one whose login is associated with a Sponsor. Sponsors are Medical Laboratories and IDNs (Integrated Delivery Networks) that send electronic reports to Facilities using Clinician.
ePrescribing
For ePrescribing functions each practice is considered a location. Providers can be associated with one or more locations. Refill requests are routed to the appropriate location based on the provider’s DEA number and the location identifier.
Users are also associated with each location. The Clinician security system allows to configure and assign different prescription write levels to users in a location. At the lowest security level, a user may be allowed to generate drug utilization reports and match patient demographic and drug data while at the highest level, a user may be authorized to write new prescriptions and approve refills for both restricted and non-restricted drugs.
The following is a list of user access levels for a typical location using Clinician:
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Security Level |
Description |
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Administrative Access |
This level has the ability to setup locations, users, billing and other maintenance functions. |
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Menu Access |
This is the most basic level of authority. This level allows an authorized user access for posting reported drugs, running reports and matching demographics and or/drug data on refill requests. |
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Prescription Access |
This level allows the practice to authorize the types of prescriptions that a designated agent can issue on behalf of a given doctor. |
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