Domain Models

Mericle allows for people and organisations to be registered in degrees of association with local service provision activities. These are known as ‘domains’. Accordingly, any person may exist at the ‘Industry’ domain level. Staff members who are to be associated with healthcare events have their records extended to the ‘Enterprise’ and ‘Healthcare’ domain levels. If a staff member requires to access the information system, their record is extended to the ‘System’ domain level.

Personalised Resource Support

Each successive level in the domain model contributes new rule bases and resources as well as personalised support for staff members. These include:

• Hospital level rights
• Active professional profiles (‘active’ means that the profile is used for data entry validation)
• System access privileges
• Customisable procedure libraries for operating staff which can be specialty based or mixed specialty
• Document origination rights with structure and content resources (A Mericle printable document has 2 components - a template, which contains the header and footer, and a content component which is the document body)
• Document origination channels for supporting Mericle’s workflow tool

In the Healthcare Domain, resources can be associated with particular staff. These are known as ‘Private’ resources. Additionally, all staff are automatically subscribed to ‘Public’ resources. New staff members, therefore, can quickly be registered on the information system, assigned public resources and later have their resource profile personalised as required.

Adaptive Sessions

The recording of healthcare events is supported by the ‘Episode’ domain where staff members appear in the EPR or EHR. The episode domain is managed by the specialist in charge of the patient’s care. Data entry operations in this domain are known as ‘adaptive sessions’ because Productivity Server dynamically manages resources such as lookups, procedure groups, validation rules and document templates according to the staff associated with the episode. These include:

• The Specialist in Charge
• The Service Provision Staff
• The Data Entry Staff (current user)