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Anonymous

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Basic problem: I need to pull the problem comments into a current assessment.

I would like to do this in the built in problem update screen.

It looks like Prob_After and parse out the comment field could work but how do I determine which problem is currently being updated? Prob_after will give me a delimited list of all problems but I just want the comment from the problem currently being updated.

For example, if updating Hypertension, select improved/unchanged etc and then in the assessment space I'd like to use a quick text to pull the comment field for hypertension into the assessment.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Posted : April 12, 2013 11:03 pm

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This wouldn't be too hard if you knew beforehand exactly which problem you were going to update. And, that would require you to create a quick tect for each problem, which you definitely don't want to do.

As an alternative You could:

--Create a form that has a dropdown list of current medications.

--Have an edit field right below the dropdown that you want to enter an assessment into

--Have a radio button with "New, Improved, Deteriorated, Unchanged, Comment only"

--Design your quick text to look at the med you've selected in the dropdown. When you use the quick text in the assessment field, it will know to look for the comments field of the med that you've specified in the dropdown.

--Use MEL_ADD_ASSESSMENT() in a button that adds the assessment to the problem in the dropdown. You have just used your quick text in the assessment edit field and selected an assessment type, so you will pass those values into MEL_ADD_ASSESSMENT().

Posted : April 19, 2013 2:46 am

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Thanks for the reply. Creating a pick list of problems would allow me to determine which problem was being updated and passing that into quick text would then allow the quick text to pull the problem's comment field into the assessment.

This may have to be the answer. The only issue is that I was hoping to be able to keep using the standard GE form to enter assessment updates. By creating a form to use the problem pick list solution, I'll have to stop using the GE form. Avoiding that was sort of my motivation to see if there was a way to pull the problem's comment field within an assessment update using quick text....

I'll keep working on it.

Thanks again

Posted : April 19, 2013 9:00 pm

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By standard GE form do you mean the Problems module that opens on top of regular forms? Also, where are the problem comments coming from? Have they already entered these on another form?

I'm trying to see what your provider's work flow is within the EMR. For example: Our providers only use the Problems Module built into CPS to add assessments, new problems, and remove problems. So, there would be no way to actually know which problem they are currently on because it isn't a form, but part of the CPS software.

Posted : April 22, 2013 4:46 am

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I've built a "Problem Assessments Editor" form. It has a dropdown list of current problems, can insert previous assessments into a multi-line edit field for modification, and add new assessments of any type. It wasn't that difficult to build, and all that would be left to do is develop the quick text to be used in the m.l.e. field. I don't think your task can be accomplished in the "Problems Module" in CPS.

Posted : April 22, 2013 10:28 am

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