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I'm interested in hearing from sites that have an on site forms builder. Are they full time? What else do they do? How large is your site (# users/providers)?
We are thinking it is almost time to hire someone.
Posted : April 13, 2012 5:08 am
We have several people including myself who can tackle form development for our group (35 providers, about 150 users). Assignments usually depends on the complexity of the project - some people have more advanced skills than others. Other tasks (depending on the person) include application support, report development, project management, and training. We do a lot of form development, but the work tends to ebb and flow over time, and I don't think we'd ever be able to keep one person busy full-time.
Posted : April 13, 2012 5:40 am
Same here. I am the primary form developer but have several others that are being trained on it. Form development is not my primary role.
Posted : April 13, 2012 8:07 am
We are a large multi speciality group with a team of 7 ITS analyst, 1 Nurse Informaticist , 3 part time Docs, and one CMIO who support Centricity and its third party applications. Out of that crew - 1 analyst and 1 Doc are a "master" form writers, 1 analyst and doc are very good form writers. Several of us both Doc and analyst are novice form writers. Form writing is done as part of all of the other projects. It is no one person's full time job - although I am sure we could keep them very busy.
Wendy
Posted : April 17, 2012 4:05 am
We have 45 physician and around 300 users. We have 2 full time form builders, both of us are nurses. We also have a full time person who supports the scheduling/registration side of things and she builds letters, handouts, and does some forms as well. We utilize EFE, VFE, and CCC forms. We primarily build and edit forms, but we also do form training,workflow management, sit in several meetings, and we are responsible for maintaining the clinical side of ePrescribing, patient portal, biscom, scanning, etc. We troubleshoot Centricity issues, do audits for management, and do new hire training when needed, although we have another full time informatics nurse who primarily does that. We do other odds and end things when needed as well.
Malissa Bellis, RN
Posted : April 17, 2012 11:19 pm
We have 2000 concurrent users with many specialties. In the past 6 years, we went from to form builders (nurses), using EFE, to 3 full-time builders (programmers), using VFE, and now 1 builder (programmer)...me, using VFE, who also does Crystal reporting, LinkLogic error resolving, MediSpan updates, EMR 9.5 upgrade, and soon SP3 upgrade. If you're looking at creating forms that are more complex, I suggest getting an actual programmer who understands functions and coding and use VFE...makes form creation/maintenance easier and quicker than EFE. I also created 3 Access databases for tracking which forms are being worked on by whom, what forms use what obs terms/functions, and what reports use what obs terms/functions...comes in extremely handy when making changes to functions.
Posted : April 18, 2012 6:11 am
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jjordet said:
We have 2000 concurrent users with many specialties. In the past 6 years, we went from to form builders (nurses), using EFE, to 3 full-time builders (programmers), using VFE, and now 1 builder (programmer)...me, using VFE, who also does Crystal reporting, LinkLogic error resolving, MediSpan updates, EMR 9.5 upgrade, and soon SP3 upgrade. If you're looking at creating forms that are more complex, I suggest getting an actual programmer who understands functions and coding and use VFE...makes form creation/maintenance easier and quicker than EFE. I also created 3 Access databases for tracking which forms are being worked on by whom, what forms use what obs terms/functions, and what reports use what obs terms/functions...comes in extremely handy when making changes to functions.
So now you are down to 2 folks doing forms? You and someone else?
Posted : April 19, 2012 1:12 am
Pretty much just me now. When we were up to 3, we were creating a lot of new forms our different therapy and neuropsych depts. I basically created the first forms and the other 2 people copied mine. I have been doing most of the major forms for the past 6.5 years, including a set of chemotherapy forms that took 2 years.
Posted : April 19, 2012 1:39 am
jjordet said:
Pretty much just me now. When we were up to 3, we were creating a lot of new forms our different therapy and neuropsych depts. I basically created the first forms and the other 2 people copied mine. I have been doing most of the major forms for the past 6.5 years, including a set of chemotherapy forms that took 2 years.
I work at a neuro office and we have 3 neurospsych physicians on staff. They are very interested in utilizing form templates to create their eval notes, either in full or partial. Right now, they dictate or use dragon. Would you be willing to share any forms created for this specialty?
Posted : June 14, 2012 4:39 am
Here are 4 sets of forms adult/child, tech/provider:
if interested, I can send the corresponding text comps and doc temps.
Posted : June 14, 2012 5:57 am
Wow, that was fast! I really appreciate this. I will run these by the physicians and follow up with you about the text comp and doc temps next week.
THANKS!!!!!!!
Posted : June 14, 2012 6:03 am
Here are the exported files:
Will import under Enterprise\Neurology with encounter types of OV/NPSY...
Posted : June 15, 2012 12:53 am
