Departments

Section Purpose:

This documentation describes hospital departments - how to build their structure, what attributes they have (including the OPK code), and how to manage their members.

Basic Information

A department is an organizational unit within a hospital (e.g. ICU, pediatric ward). Departments form a tree - each department can contain sub-departments, allowing you to reflect the facility’s actual structure.

The Departments tab in the hospital details presents this tree. In it you can:

• Create departments - enter a Name (e.g. ICU) and confirm with the Create button. A new department can be added as a top-level element or as a child of another department.
• Rename a department.
• Delete departments.

Department Attributes

For each department, an attribute editing dialog is available with the following fields:

• Acronym - a shortened designation of the department.
• OPK code - the Cost Center (Ośrodek Powstawania Kosztów) code identifying the department for billing purposes.
• Phone - the department’s contact number.
• Street - the department’s address.
• Postal code
• City

Save changes with the Save button.

Tip

A department’s OPK code appears in the OPK column on the prescription list and the bag list. It is the successor to the former “Cost Centers” - in the new model, OPK is an attribute of a department rather than a separate organizational unit.

Department Members

Users can be assigned to and removed from each department. Membership in a department determines which prescriptions and bags a user has access to.

Scope and “Entire hospital”

The prescription and bag lists are filtered by a shared department filter (the Departments button above the table). The filter shows a tree of hospitals and departments with a selection counter:

• Selecting an entire hospital covers all of its departments.
• The filter is shared between the prescription list and the bag list.

The active working department, on the other hand, is chosen in the side menu header - see Getting Started.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does a user’s access to a department come from?

Access results from membership - a user must be assigned to a department (technically: a group in Keycloak). Without membership, that department’s prescriptions and bags remain outside their scope.

Can a department have sub-departments?

Yes. Departments form a tree of arbitrary depth - when adding a department, you can indicate its parent department.