Admissions
RehabAlpha is still under active development. It is not yet HIPAA compliant and should only be used with dummy data.
An admission represents a patient’s stay at a facility during which care is provided. It ties together the patient, the facility, and the time period of the stay.
Admissions provide the structural backbone for organizing billing periods which define how services are billed.
Data model
RehabAlpha stores admissions under a patient while also linking them to a facility:
Multiple therapy cases may reference the same admission:
Furthermore, an admission may store a collection of billing periods used to specify which of a patient's coverages are responsible for covering therapy services tied to the admission.
Discussion
Unlike most EMRs where you add a patient to a facility, in RehabAlpha you create a patient and then link them to a facility via an admission. The admission is where you define details about the patient's stay. Every admission requires
- a facility
- a patient
- a start date
In RehabAlpha, you can set up a new admission from a patient's Admissions tab. Alternatively, when you create a new patient, you can set up an admission from inside the New Patient form.