Configuring General Settings

Enable database maintenance for your installation.

The default setting is ON.

Set the time of day when database maintenance will run. The Time Zone is based on the time zone setting of the PatientSecure Admin Console.

Click the field and enter a time in the format provided, or click and select a time.

The default setting is 2:00 AM.

Display a customized script in the PatientSecure window for registrars to read to new patients about the benefits of enrolling in PatientSecure.

The default setting is OFF.

Specify the body of the registrar script.

• Supports the use of carriage returns in order to create a legible message.

• Supports plain text only. HTML, images or audio is not supported.

Pause the sending of HL7 outbound events.

The default setting is ON.

Select the depth of information to capture in logs:

• Trace is the most granular level, logging every event. This level is recommended only in extreme situations, as it quickly produces a large number of log entries.

• Debug is the second most granular level, producing the most detailed logs. We recommend using the Debug level for troubleshooting.

• Information

• Warning

• Error is the default setting.

• Critical is the least granular, producing the least detailed logs.

  NOTE:

  When you change the server log level, you need to reset each component on the application server that will implement the new log level. For assistance, contact Imprivata PatientSecure Support.

You can also set log levels for client machines.

The number of days before Server log level and Client log level reverts to Error level.

When you change the server log level, this setting specifies the number of days before the logs revert the to the default Error level.

The default setting is seven (7) days.

Set the time of day, according to the Time Zone setting, when your data collection service will post data.

Click the field and enter a time in the format provided, or click and select a time.

The default setting is 1:00 AM.

The base URL address where your data collection service will post data.

Depends on whether you configured the PatientSecure environment as a production or test environment.

• Production: https://sitemonitoringdatacollectionapi.azurewebsites.net

• Test: https://test-sitemonitoringdatacollectionapi.azurewebsites.net

• Click Post Now to test the connection between the PatientSecureAdmin Console and the Site Monitoring component.

Excludes data from the current day (from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM) from the PatientSecure dashboard.

Utilization data will be displayed the following day.

This setting affects reports run directly from the dashboard.

This setting does not affect duplicate detection.

The default setting is OFF.

For Epic integrations and Toolbar only.

Download or upload a .CSV file containing the machine name and IP address mapping.

• Click Download to export the default .CSV configuration file.

• Click Upload to import a file containing the machine names and the static IP addresses.

The file must contain the following columns:

• MachineName

• IPAddress

  NOTE:

  After you upload a mapping file, you must restart the Epic integration or Toolbar so that the new application setting value is set.

Set the time zone displayed for dates and times in the Admin Console, including dashboards and reports.

Select a time zone that most closely matches your server’s local time from the drop-down list.

In Imprivata PatientSecure, time is stored in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) but displayed according to the time zone you select.

The default setting is (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).

Enable the Admin Console announcement feature.

• The Announcement includes the name of the user who configured the Announcement.

• The Announcement is displayed in the Notification area of the Admin Console menu until the owner disables the Announcement.

• Only one Announcement can be shown at a time.

The default setting is OFF.

Display the announcement message to the selected groups of users.

Select a group from the list.

Specify the subject line of the announcement message.

• Limited to 100 characters.

The number of years Emergency Search will scan looking for potential matches.

The age range is divided in half.

The default setting is 20.

For example, if this setting is 20, Emergency Search scans patients whose date of birth is between 10 years below and 10 years above the patient date of birth patient's estimated age supplied by the registrar.

Whenever a photo is created, updated or when a patient's identifier is changed, a photo upload event is scheduled and sent to the Cerner Photo Web Service.

The following parameters construct the URL and authorization request used for posting a photo to the Cerner Photo Web Service endpoint.

<protocol>://<Server>/<resourcePath>?<PatientIdentifierTag>&<AdditionalParameters>

Example:

http://192.0.2.0/camm/c197.dr.char_nc.cernerasp.com/service/PERSON_PHOTO/store?cmrn=1111&mimeType=image%2fjpeg

Enable photo upload for the configured web service.

The default setting is OFF.

Specify the patient identifier to use for PatientSecure to look up patient details when uploading a photo.

This patient identifier is the value used in the API Tag box in the Patient Identifiers page.

Required. Specify the protocol to use in the designated URL when posting the photo event to the endpoint.

Valid values: http and https.

Required. Specify the resource path to use in the designated URL when posting the photo event to the endpoint.

Example:

camm/c197.dr.char_nc.cernerasp.com/service/PERSON_PHOTO/store

Required. Specify the patient identifier tag to use in the designated URL when posting the photo event to the endpoint.

Optional. Specify additional query strings to use in the designated URL when posting the photo event to the endpoint.

Format:

name=value, where each parameter is separated by an ampersand.

n1=v1&n2=v2&n3=v3

Example:

mimeType=image%2fjpeg

Enable the ability to automatically delete patients and remove their biometric data based upon a defined period of inactivity.

Inactivity is defined as no PatientSecure enrollments, authentications, or opt-outs for a patient during the specified time period. HL7 updates are not included when determining activity.

When a patient and their biometric data are deleted due to this setting, the patient record is updated to indicate that the biometric data has been removed for compliance reasons.

The default setting is OFF.

Select the threshold (in months) after which inactive patient records and biometric data will be automatically deleted.

The default setting is 120 months (10 years).

Set the time of day, according to the Time Zone setting, when the daily scheduled task for the automatic deletion of inactive patient biometric data will run.

Click the field and enter a time in the format provided, or click and select a time.

The default setting is 9:00 PM.