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Since publication of MU final summary rules made the CVS requirements less restrictive, our practice wants to again use our custom clinical visit Summary. It is a comprehensive visit summary handout and printed for the patient.
Are there any functions or Mel coding that will can take the completed handout output and attach this handout text to the visit document as an attachment similar to the way that the GE CVS is attached to the visit document?
Can the handout be saved to the chart visit as an attachment?
Can the handout be converted to a PDF file and attached to the Visit document from within a VFE form?
We want this custom CVS to be available for view in the patient portal for patients, similar to the GE CVS is available for viewing in the portal.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am stumped on how to do this.
Thank You
Jaisan
Posted : November 14, 2015 9:26 am
I'm afraid there isn't an easy solution to this. Currently, GE has embedded code that appends the office visit document that you create the CVS in with an XML document (CCDA).
- You could use a letter instead and have it save in documents (although it won't be appended to the office visit it was created in).
- You could create a text component that will build out the handout inside of an encounter. After the office visit is signed, you could append the office visit document with this text component encounter.
Both of these methods can't be done within the office visit encounter, and they require extra steps to your current workflow.
I haven't tried this before, but you could try using ADD_ATTACHMENT to add a text file attachment to the current document. You would need a small program or batch file to build the text file and save it to your file server. Example of the MEL code for attachments:
{ADD_ATTACHMENT("M:\\CVSDocuments\\CVS111231-11-18-2015.txt", "Custom Clinical Visit Summary","T")}
Also, if you use something other than the built in Clinical Visit Summary, you'll need to mark these in the MUActivityLog table so that you get credit in CQR. MEL Code for that:
{ADD_MUACTIVITY_LOG(activityID, loginname, description)}
I believe your activity ID would be 2 for CVS given to patient.
Posted : November 18, 2015 4:38 am
