Q: Is there any way to free text a surgical procedure anymore? I have a patient who just underwent what the operative report says was a transobturator midurethral sling. ...and I searched transobturator, urethral, midurethral and came up with nothing.
A: There have been a number of requests for docs and other clinical folks to be able to enter procedures and surgeries that just don't seem to be searchable through the Histories tool. You might recall that we have this option in the Problem List, among other places, though discourage people from using free text since uncoded data are not especially versatile. This is the say that such entries would not be easily converted from one tool to another (Problem to Diagnosis List, for example). Also, we have trouble tracking and mining uncoded data for registry and research purposes. That said, when I received the above request, I contacted my IS buddy, Julie Gentes, and, with the flip of a switch:
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