Interesting week EMR-wise. We had a successful launch of EKG and stress test tracing images to the Clinical Notes as well as delivery of these results to BMP physicians ordering from the ambulatory setting. We're getting closer to making changes to the Table of Contents, as I reported earlier this week. But we also had something of a snafu with our attempted launch of the new Immunization Schedule.
Our intentions were good and, boy oh boy, did the IS team ever perform due diligence in terms of testing this new tool. Sometimes, though, all the testing in the world doesn't mean a thing when it can't be done in real time and space. To make a long night's story short, we ultimately decided to pull the schedule and reverted to the Immunization Profile, which really is just a plain text list of vaccines given.
For adults, the profile is fine, but for kids, whose MO is to be pin cushions through adolescence, the schedule was and will be a colorful enhancement. Expect to see it sometime in the TBD. For those of you whose patients are older than age 20, the schedule doesn't change things much except to lose the list and create a Historical Immunizations tab in the All Results band. All else functions as is including Health Maintenance and View Immunizations in the PowerNote. But for our younger patients, the schedule will provide visual cues and alerts that will improve the delivery of this essential component of care. You'll get the heads up when we are ready to give it another go.
In the meantime, one of my partners in crime, Pat Brown, created a couple of nice slide sets that I thought might be useful tips.
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