Katie,
unfortunately the Bright Futures forms are copyrighted so I suspect you won't find an exact replica of the form in Centricity. However, it does appear you could reproduce the form in Centricity with the publisher's permission (below is the copyright statement on their forms):
Copyright © 2010 American Academy of Pediatrics. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.
I'm not a lawyer, but I see no reason why you couldn't construct a custom form using VFE that asked the same questions that appear on this form. I personally think their copyright statement is somewhat unrealistic since most providers are going to be completing and storing these forms in a "retrieval system" of some kind (e.g. scanned into an EMR), but to be absolutely legal, you might contact the publisher and get their permission. I have had success in getting permission from publishers in the past by telling them I will include a hardcoded statement on the electronic form stating the content and design were adopted from their materials.
Another thing you might consider is developing an encounter form that has a button that will open up the appropriate Bright Futures form (form would be selectable from a dropdown list) for the provider to complete electronically. The forms available from AAP's website are "fillable pdf forms" meaning you can type in the data on the electronic form and then save the completed form to a common area (e.g. a network file server). This completed form can then be imported or attached to an existing document in Centricity. This would give you the advantage of not having to scan in handwritten forms. I have used this strategy to open up a pdf form for our practice that the provider completes and then they press a button on the encounter form to attach the completed form to their current document. The downside is that the data you are capturing on the electronic pdf form will obviously not be stored in OBS terms in Centricity, so if you are wanting to trend or review previously collected data, you will not be able to do so with this strategy. This approach would also require some IT skills to set things up properly.
Posted : June 20, 2016 4:55 am
