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Truven Button URL help

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aroberts

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Hi,

So at CHUG I was told by GE that I could use the MU log to add the MU activity of patient education (#12 is the number I was told for the log). They said if I found the Truven handout I wanted and got the URL, I could put a button to call my URL into the form, print it and write code to write this activity to the table. That being said, I can't for the life of me figure out the URL of certain handouts. In admin, the url for truven is http://www.micromedexsolutions.com/carenotes/librarian/accessv3?mainSearchCriteria.v.c={ITEM_CODE_SELECTED()}&mainSearchCriteria.v.cs={ITEM_CODESOURCE_SELECTED()}&mainSearchCriteria.v.dn={ITEM_NAME_SELECTED()}&holder.assignedEntity.n=GEC&holder.assignedEntity.certificateText=T46020

but when I go to that site, it asks me for a log in and such-- am I missing a bigger picture here? I am about ready to copy and paste the handout into our system and then just print it the old way and write it to the table. Has anyone else figured this out that would be willing to share?

Thanks in Advance!

Amy Roberts

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Posted : October 15, 2014 5:57 am

JenWagaman

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I too would be interested in the process for this. We didn't attend CHUG, and had not been aware this was an option.

Posted : October 15, 2014 6:00 am

lkeith

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So are you saying that at CHUG they said that you could put a button on a custom form to call a specific handout and then also put in the code to write that activity in the MU log? If so, I would definitely interested in how to do that as well.

Posted : October 15, 2014 7:54 am

aroberts

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Yes, that is what I was told

Here is what I got from the help to write to the table but I am not sure what to do with it- I know it is activity number 12 but I am really not sure how to write the code to allow this to work- I now have the Truven log in but it is painful because you have to log in every time to find the handout- our users aren't going to do that..... feeling stuck.....

{GET_MUACTIVITY_LOG()}

returns

1692543253001990^8/19/2013 2:54:12 PM^8/19/2013 2:54:13
PM^2^1442678380800620^1692543156000740^^^^^^SaveToFile^^^N^^

Values returned can be interpreted as follows:

MUActivityLogId^Event_Timestamp^DB_Create_Timestamp^MUActivityLogTypeId
^PID^SDID^PVID^ORDERID^UserAccessIdentifier^Access_Device^
Access_Source^DeliveryMethod^Recipient^Outcome^Exported^IsEnabled

Posted : October 15, 2014 10:20 am

DavidShower

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Looks like it might be ADD_MUACTIVITY_LOG but I can't see where it is documented anywhere. Probably have to ask GE for the parameters.

Posted : October 15, 2014 11:44 am

aroberts

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Here is what I have so far

From GE

when adding to the activity log:

Add_MUActivity_Log(Activity_Log_Type - ID, Loginname (optional),Description(optional))

The description can be up to 2000 characters

For example: MEL programming that pushes the portal pin to the MU log. There isn't documentation to explain each of the arguments.

I’m thinking Add_MUActivity_Log(12,user.loginname,"","") not sure what needs to be at the end. I guess add the truven info like "Patient education printed"

This is the one for the CVS that I have as an example......

{

if OBSANY('PATPORTALPIN') = 'Y' then

Add_MUActivity_Log(510,user.loginname,"Patient Portal Access Available, source PATPORTALPIN") else return ""

endif

}

I will be out of town the rest of this week but plan on working on this next week, if anyone gets to it first and figures it out, please feel free to share!

Amy

Posted : October 20, 2014 9:38 am

carolyngrasso

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Our issue with the Patient Education handout MU requirement being met by Truven is that the only option for printing a handout is from the Problems, Medications, or Flowsheet tab of the chart. This means that the problem or medication has to be signed before you can click the blue info button.

Most likely the clinicians would want to give a handout when a problem is added to the chart, so that means that they will have to put the note on hold, sign clinical list changes, and then open the note again, navigate to the problems tab, and then click the info button and select the handout. This is a big workflow change for our clinicians, and very steppy.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to program the runshellopen MEL statement to open the Micromedex site?

thanks!

Posted : November 13, 2014 10:51 am

JenWagaman

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Just curious if anyone has been able to successfully write (via a button) to the MUactivity Log for patient education & if they have been able to see it count from the CQR reporting side. We are still playing with it & trying to get it to work. We were hoping to create specific handouts on common educational topics such as smoking cessation, weight loss, etc, and putting the buttons in easy to find places such as vitals, patient instructions; so that we could have anyone on our care team to help generate meaningful pt education to give the pt, and at the same time allow providers to continue to use the patient handouts they are used to.

After seeing the notification from GE on Friday regarding ExitCare handouts expiring on December 31st, we are now trying to sort out our options for making sure we meet the MU2 measure, and most importantly avoid (another source of) backlash from providers. We do not expect the adoption of the Truven content to go smoothly with our providers. For reasons based on workflow as well as the actual Truven content. Has anyone else recieved complaints or concerns regarding the Truven pt education handouts? We have had complaints that range from the following: poorly written (grammatical errors), no preventive or guideline based handout material (ie: nothing useful comes up when selecting "preventive care" as problem) and the consistent & constant reference to 'Doctor' instead of 'Provider', as well as the references to the Doctor's gender always and only being male. (him/his).

I have reported these concerns to GE in the spring, and haven't had any follow up on them.

Posted : November 24, 2014 5:28 am

DavidShower

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You can use this URL to access Truven directly:

http://www.micromedexsolutions.com/carenotes/librarian/accessv3?mainSearchCriteria.v.dn=smoking&holder.assignedEntity.n=GEC&holder.assignedEntity.certificateText=T46020

The word smoking can be replaced with whatever term you are looking for. You can then drill down and get the URL to the particular handout you want. You will probably have to append &holder.assignedEntity.n=GEC&holder.assignedEntity.certificateText=T46020 to the URL to get the login credentials passed.

Figured out a problem - here is ICD-9 034.0 STREP THROAT

http://www.micromedexsolutions.com/carenotes/librarian/accessv3?mainSearchCriteria.v.c=034.0&mainSearchCriteria.v.cs=ICD-9&mainSearchCriteria.v.dn=Strep%20throat&holder.assignedEntity.n=GEC&holder.assignedEntity.certificateText=T46020

Has anyone made it further with the Add_MUActivity_Log symbol?

Posted : December 1, 2014 11:16 am

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