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Hi All,
Has any one out there created good dynamic letter head that would include information beyond just the location of care contact information? We are on EMR 9.8.3 (Sp6 very soon). As a bit of background:
We have about 80 practices that cover 18 specialties. The downstream effect of this is we have roughly 400 letters and and handouts in the system. At somepoint in the past before I got here it was decided that headers would be built into the body of these print outs in order to capture things like images and physician names (in addition to contact/address information). We've run into a problem where a practice will have a physican leave or a new one join and have to manually update all letters. We cannot grant this ability to the practices themselves as they would then have access to all EMR settings. Needless to say this is very time consuming.
In the past this was OK but now with the increase in major projects (MU stage 2, NCQA etc) our team does not have the same time we once had to make small (yet time consuming) changes like this.
What I have been tasked with is finding a more efficient way to handle headers. Last resort will be to require practices to print out on paper that already contains their desired headers but that will be met with great push back from the practices. I am hoping others have dealt with this situation before and have developed a clever, dynamic solution.
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
Posted : October 14, 2014 3:19 am
I have already tried to figure out how to include images dynamically in headers - no joy - could not find any other way than to include the image in the header - which is then the SAME for every LOC. But you could put in a series of IF ... THEN... ELSE... ENDIF statements to control what names and addresses you need to display.
This can make the header really hard to manage though, so it would be better if you could call a function to do that logic and return the result instead.
There was an interesting discussion about Quicktext, and maybe using the usrlib.txt file to store a function which could then be called from Quicktext.
I am going to see if that works.
On another note - where is the "watch a topic" button ? I would like to keep track of discussions in this topic. Is it automatic now if I post here (new CHUG website, not sure how it works yet).
- Beverly
Posted : October 17, 2014 7:36 am
