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srock

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Has anyone developed a form that satisfies the MU requirement for capturing Family History as structured data?

The CCC form is very confusing and I'd like something easier.

If not, does anyone have a workflow or training materials on how to use the FH CCC form correctly for MU?

Thanks, Sharon

Posted : February 27, 2015 10:10 am

JenWagaman

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We ran into same issue regarding CCC form updates that GE provided. We ended up working with a vendor (Polaris Danforth) who developed a much better form our providers like. We didn't have the time to put in to developing one ourselves with the MU2 crunch.
Providers specifically like the alternative views (can sort by disease or by relative). Price was reasonable. Here's their contact info: [email protected]

Posted : February 27, 2015 10:15 am

sborchardt

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I know at CHUG in October 2014 GE was getting feedback on a new version of the FH form. It looked better than the current form and functioned better as well. At that time I was told it would be released end of year 2014. Clearly that has not happened, it might be worth asking GE if and when that will be released. I was going to ask again at CHUG in Orlando.

Steph B.

Posted : February 27, 2015 11:48 am

mthompso

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I believe that the form I posted at https://centricityusers.com/forum/histories-form/ should satisfy the requirement of storing the family history information as structured data. It also includes a way to interact with the problem list/past medical history and update the medication list.

Posted : February 27, 2015 11:52 am

Geoflex2

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mthompso,

Your form for Family History was great, and a huge improvement on what GE provided.

I made a few small changes to make it work better for us. I made the list boxes bigger for less scrolling. Also, I gave the option to add more than one disease at a time, with the warning that any "comments" will be added to multiple diagnoses. Providers were instructed that if they wanted to use "comments" they would need to add each diagnosis individually. I also allowed providers to choose multiple items for deletion, with the same warning that any reason they gave would be applied to all choices.

I added your necessary functions to the form itself so that I would not need to load the functions in the database with usrlib.txt

We ran into a difficulty if the comment field or the diagnosis had an apostrophe like Alzheimer's disease, or patient had a MI in his 50's, where it could not be deleted so I added extra code to take out the apostrophe when looking for the match. (I think what was happening is that your code stripped the quotation marks from the string list of diagnoses in order to use it as an array and this was also stripping the quotes from the diagnoses/comments). It seems to be working with my changes. I do not know if your original form had this difficulty or not, it may have only become a problem after my changes.

I needed to force a refresh of the FmHx list when changing the category from add to remove so I used a open form command. This calls for opening the form from the location in my database and will have to be changed to have the correct location for anyone else using the form.

I do not know how to upload the files, but if you would like see and or use my changes, you are most welcome. I am very appreciative of the work you did on the original form. You can contact me at [email protected]

Posted : March 1, 2015 2:12 pm

mond08

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I was running into some issues getting the multiple select of diagnoses to work while still linking to the appropriate snomed codes. Are you still using only one listbox of diagnoses or are you using multiple listboxes?

Posted : March 2, 2015 5:14 am

Geoflex2

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I kept one listbox and allowed multiple picks. I created an array and then looped through the choices to add or remove the diagnoses.

If you can tell me how to upload files on this site, I will share my files. Using the attach does not work for some of the file types because of security concerns.

Posted : March 2, 2015 6:17 am

srock

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Geoflex2,

My email is [email protected] if you are willing to share. I'm not sure how to upload on CHUG.

Sharon

Posted : March 2, 2015 6:20 am

mond08

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Geoflex2 my email is [email protected] if you have time to share as well.

Thanks again
Dave

Posted : March 2, 2015 6:21 am

Jim Poulos

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Geoflex2, et.al., this is a great conversation and I also would like to get in on having a functioning FH screen that meets MU requirements.

Can you share the CHUG-collective created form with me?

Jim Poulos [email protected]

Posted : March 3, 2015 6:36 am

vsokoln

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Our providers loathe the new FH-SH CCC form that we switched them to in December from a very user friendly custom VFE form. At the time we were crunched to get all the MU and PQRS mappings fixed among other broken pieces after upgrading, so didn't have time to try to figure out how to fix our custom form. I am also interested in seeing the custom form you have created. Please email to me at [email protected].
Thank you!

Posted : March 6, 2015 4:17 am

dorotheatrusty

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We are getting ready to upgrade to 9.8 and have seen the FH form created by GE. It's not very user friendly and confusing. I am interested in seeing the custom form also. My email address is [email protected]

Thank you in advance!

Posted : March 17, 2015 3:40 am

mthompso

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Here is a copy of the Histories form that I had attached to the original post https://centricityusers.com/forum/histories-form/.

I think that the steps for posting your form would be to:

Click on the Add Media button just above where you type your answer.
Click on Upload Files and follow the instructions to drag the file from Windows Explorer to the web page (a zip file might be easiest).
Go to the Add Media tab and select the file you want to add.
Click on the Insert Into Post button at the bottom right.

This form also requires some function libraries. They can be downloaded at General Purpose Libraries.

They are configured to create a user library (utillib.txt) which can be loaded through the usrlib.txt file using the command load(“utillib.txt”)

The .lib files should be copied to your function library directory which is configured in Visual Form Editor through the Tools>Options>Directory>Function Library.

The full posting regarding the libraries can be found at https://centricityusers.com/forum/general-purpose-function-libraries/.

Posted : March 17, 2015 5:36 pm

srock

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We can't get the form that was provided (Histories) to work correctly. When I open it in VFE, there are 2 build errors................"Unable to open library Utility" and Unable to open library Clinical Lists".

Do you think there's something with that causing the form to not function correctly?

Posted : March 18, 2015 10:46 am

srock

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Hello all,

Someone shared a VFE form with me called Family History3.

I've opened it in VFE and screwed it up.............like a dummy, I didn't save original file.

Can someone please send it again to me at [email protected]?

I'm so sorry for the inconvenience..............but I would appreciate it very much!

Thanks, Sharon

Posted : March 20, 2015 9:29 am

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