I've mentioned that the Health Maintenance tool will become more user-friendly with a major upgrade later this year. In the meantime, I will be working with the CIS team to enhance the effectiveness of the tool as it now exists. The next task at hand is the building of more disease-specific expectations.
During the past week, I've submitted cardiovascular disease diagnoses that will trigger yearly lipid profile testing. To give you an idea of why it can be something of a technical chore to make this "simple" health maintenance expectation possible, I searched using multiple terms and arrived at 341 distinct diagnoses. Each of these must then be associated with each component of the lipid profile. While hundreds of CVD diagnoses have been identified, I'm sure some of you have found others in the SNOMED code system that should qualify a patient for the FLP requirement.
We will be working to add triggers for all forms of cardio-, cerebro-, and peripheral vascular disease as well as hyperlipidemia diagnoses in the coming weeks.
Let me know how we're doing and any other ideas you have.
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