Medisoft Clinical Capabilities to Find Infectious Illnesses

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Medisoft Clinical Capabilities to Find Infectious Illnesses

Post by Gavin Walker » Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:47 pm

There have been and will continue to be wordwide epidemics of infectious illnesses (e.g., Avian Influenza, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Ebola, etc.) where patient delivered info will be vital in aiding your treatment group to decide the suitable treatment. With new events and sharp awareness around the significance of transferring patient delivered info (e.g., travel history), McKesson has studied the choices offered in Medisoft Clinical that are significant in serving your treatment group to quickly tackle these situations and decide the suitable treatment. Numerous choices within Medisoft Clinical can help the documentation of info to complement your group's rules and processes to treat at risk patients. While the options inside Medisoft Clinical can aid your treatment group take the info desirable for vetting and deliver visibility to suitable caregivers, your group ought to check your rules and processes to make sure that there is a human escalation procedure in position that does not exclusively trust on Medisoft Clinical for warning.

Choices existing in Medisoft Clinical that your group can assess specific to travel history:
  • Progress Notes and Note Templates — Travel History can be inserted as a vetting query to your templates. You may consider making travel history as a Clinical Element. The Clinical Elements can be combined into your notes with dot codes or letter codes for ease of information capture.
    Patient History – The above-mentioned Progress Note and Note Template components can also be passed into a patient’s Past Medical History.
    Urgent Memos – A patient-specific Display Note (pop up memo) could be built to jog your memory when a particular travel danger is classified by a patient.
    Diagnoses – If clinically designated, an suitable problem may be inserted to the Major Problems and/or Diagnoses tab.
    Order Name and Lab Name – You can build an suitable Order Name for the Ebola vetting examination. You can also build a Lab Data Test Name to record the outcomes of the Ebola Screening examination. Both items can be combined in the Note Template.
    Patient/Lists Reminder – If you elect to use the Clinical Elements and/or Lab Data Test Name, you can then run a Patient Inquiry report and/or build a patient registry. Both of these can be employed to make suitable reminders.
    Extra Info: Here are the links to CDC resources for your reference.
Checklist for Patients Being Assessed for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the United States

Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola): Procedure for Evaluation of the Returned Traveler
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