Working with service lines

The Service Line Schemas utility allows you to create, manage, and process the tagging of encounters with service lines for reporting purposes quickly and easily. You can create up to eight schemas with an unlimited number of service line definitions. Definitions allow you to specify which encounters to evaluate and tag.

When configuring a schema, you can also create an unlimited number of groups that give you the flexibility to organize encounters in different ways. Let's say your organization has a Center of Excellence. You can create a group for this and add values that addresses each center, such as Neurosciences, Cardiology, Cancer, etc. You can then create reports using these different groups.

TIP: This feature is optional, but if you plan on using groups, we recommend that you plan out your groups first, and then apply them starting with the first schema you create. Otherwise, if you wait until your schema creation process is complete, you will need to revisit each schema and service line definition to add the groups.

When you process a schema, the Axiom system evaluates each encounter against the definition criteria in an order that you define. When an encounter meets the criteria, the system removes it from further evaluation and tags it in the Axiom database with the service line so that it is not counted more than once.