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Hi all, I am trying to add an action button to a VFE form to open a letter that is already in the letter template. anyone knows how to do that??
I know there is add order, medication, problem even handout but no letter.
Thanks, Jude
Posted : March 17, 2015 7:34 am
There is the ability to open a text component inside a VFE form, which will essentially copy the text into your encounter, and the ability to print a handout. However, there is not any functionality to print a letter from a button-press inside a VFE form.
Oh, something that may not be obvious, but a handout can execute MEL commands and thus be very similar to a letter. I have taken that route to be able to print out a patient-specific document that looks like a letter, but is a handout in GE world.
~Joe
Posted : March 17, 2015 7:42 am
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Joe, I am trying this but after I saved the letter as a handout if I try to find it from the action button it is not there.
Posted : March 17, 2015 7:50 am
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Joe, you cannot customize either from the handout right?
Posted : March 17, 2015 7:57 am
I have an Action-Button in VFE, set with Connection type = RUNPROCESS. Then, in the box below I have the following:
{PRINTHANDOUT("Handouts\NEMC\GM Internal medicine\GM Patient Portal\Primary Care Portal Enrollment Instructions with PIN")}
And that handout has lots of MEL commands to make it look like a letter.
Does that help?
~Joe
Posted : March 17, 2015 8:14 am
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Perfect.
When we go to print our users will be able to to customize the letter before they print it. With your {PRINTHANDOUT("Handouts\NEMC\GM Internal medicine\GM Patient Portal\Primary Care Portal Enrollment Instructions with PIN")} it prints it right away, correct?
Posted : March 17, 2015 10:21 am
Yes, the handout will print immediately - with the previous steps/instructions I defined. Thus, the VFE entry screen may populate certain OBS terms that will be merged into the handout.
By the way, to users I still refer to these as letters. No need to confuse them by having them think handouts, which are normally considered to be just a standard document without personalization.
Posted : March 18, 2015 3:51 am
