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Patient education handouts

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DanaH

(@dhamildog)

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Hi All -

This may be a silly question but I thought I'd ask anyways.

Recently an issue came up in regards to patient educational handouts. Right now we are printing handouts from Healthwise patient education materials. But our providers here print a lot of sports medicine handouts from books and there is no way to capture these in the EMR or for MU because they're paper forms. If we were to create buttons in an EMR form where they would bring up electronic PDF versions of these sports med forms, would we still be able to have this count towards MU? Or would it still not count as electronic patient education handouts?

Thanks,
AC

Posted : September 1, 2016 7:36 am

jsander

(@jsander)

Posts: 108

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Yes, you can count paper handouts towards MU. What I read in CMS guidelines indicates that you can use any kind of educational resource as long as it comes up in the EMR based on the patient's current condition. We have a form that uses MEL commands. Here's an example of how to record it so that CQR can find it:

ADD_MUACTIVITY_LOG(12,find("_UserSearch","loginname","RealName",Document.provider),"Handout given: 1st trimester pack")

Posted : September 1, 2016 7:53 am

Adam Daniel

(@adaniel)

Posts: 524

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Is it required to have the doctor signed the update in which the handout was generated? Or does it correctly count the Document.provider regardless of who signs?

Thanks in advance!

Posted : October 27, 2016 1:44 am

jsander

(@jsander)

Posts: 108

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The MEL command above is based on the responsible provider of the document, not on who does the actual signing. The MU activity log entries don't seem to care who signs.

Posted : October 27, 2016 3:25 am

Sam

(@sam)

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Can you confirm your MEL above? looks like there an error in the number of "s. Thanks!

Posted : November 3, 2016 2:06 am

jsander

(@jsander)

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I copied and pasted this straight from working code, starting with Add_ and ending with pack"). Quotes look like good pairs to me.

Posted : November 3, 2016 2:45 am

Sam

(@sam)

Posts: 371

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Can you send me a screenshot of the code? Perhaps CHUG formatting is fighting it? I don't see the corresponding opening " for the given: 1st trimester pack section. Here's my email: [email protected]

Thanks

Posted : November 3, 2016 2:51 am

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