Concepts and Terminology

Overview

Facility is a special system defined Attribution Type, that defines which Facility a worksheet belongs to. It controls the Role, and topic rights for data entry, and also reporting. This document describes what a Facility is and when to use the option of defining Sub-facility instead of Facility. Although you can manage your own facilities from Managing Attribution Type Objects, it is governed by the licensing policy, if unsure contact .

Facility v/s Sub-facility

An organization can create each of their sister hospitals as a sub-facility or as a facility. Choosing whether to define facility or sub-facility requires some forethought; the following will assist you in making that decision. Creating separate facilities involves more system administration work, but provides greater security and features for the system. If you wish to use PDA Professional for more than one hospital, sub-facilities should be able to handle most of your requirements. Use multiple facilities if you plan to use the following features:

Feature	Separate Facilities (no sub-facility)	Separate sub-facilities (one facility)
Setup	Create each of the sister hospitals under Facility Attribution Type.	Create one facility under Facility Attribution Type. Create a new Attribution Type 'Sub-facility' and add all you sister hospitals under that.
Ease of setting up	Advanced	Easy
Different Attribution Type objects for each facility	Allows you to specify whether an Attribution Type Objects is available to all the facility or is available to only a few facilities e.g. Practitioner A can be marked to be available only in Facility A and Facility B, where Practitioner B can be marked to be available to all facilities	All Attribution Objects are available to all sub-facilities
Different Attribution Type property for each facility	Different ID's can be specified for different facilities to the same Attribution Type object e.g. the same practitioner can have ID 301 for facility A and 6453 for facility B. Similarly you can define different default department for different facilities for the same practitioner.	N/A
Role access for a facility	Can define which Role will have access to which facility e.g. Role A can be defined to have access to data for all facilities and Role B can be defined to have access to data of Facility A only.	All roles have access to data of all sub-facilities.
Restrict reporting for a facility	Can be defined so that users of one Role do not see the data for other facilities e.g. you may not want users of facility A to be able to view data for other facilities, and users at the corporate to be able to view data for all facilities	All Users can report from data of all sub-facilities.
Restrict worksheet data entry to a facility	Can be defined so that Users of one Role cannot perform data entry on selective facilities for selective review Topics.	Same Role cannot have different access rights for the same Topic for different sub-facilities
Compare data for different sister hospitals	Data can be compared between facilities	Data can be compared between different sub-facility
Filter data for different sister hospitals	Data can be filtered for a facility	Data can be filtered for a sub-facility

Default Facility

If a Default Facility has been defined, then it automatically populates at the time of data entry. It is a good idea to define default facilty at the Role level for faster data entry. Default facility can be specified for a Role or a User. If a different default facility has been defined for the User and the Role (whom this user is part of), the facility default established for the User will take precedence.

Default Facility
Role	User	Final Result
Facility A	Facility B	Facility B
Facility B	Facility B	Facility B
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