Changes to the Patient Summary
- Consent: Ability to attach documents such as signed, scanned consents
- Medication allergy Duplicate Problem Warnings Check
- Notices and Alerts
- Expanded Demographics: Mobile phone and email addresses can now be recorded.
- Contacts: Display names of contacts
- Advanced Directive: shows the list of Advance Directives that are in effect.
- Provider Lists: Names of the patient’s healthcare providers
Allergies
- Ability to add allergies in free text
- An explicit entry of no known allergies can be entered
- Allergies can now be seen by any work group, not just the workgroup the patient is in.
Medication Lists
- Medications not found in the Elysium Drugs Database can be entered in free text.
- Medication List can be marked as “reviewed”
Vaccination Lists
- Now includes the manufacturer and the expiration date
- Lists can be marked as “reviewed” with date time stamp and user name
Problem List
- Can be marked as “reviewed” with date time stamp and user name.
- Chronicity of a problem can be recorded
VHR Changes
- New tabs for orders, office memos and encounters.
- Improved chronological sort
EMR-Lite Changes
- Patient Index: Ability to select specific sections and print the patient summary page in the Patient Index.
- Encounters
- Comprehensive office visit encounter form with E&M calculator
- Documents created from encounters are associated and linked to the encounter
- New view of encounters categorized by patient
- Major enhancements to the Encounter form:
- Structured encounter recording forms including adult and OB visits
- Includes ability to add scheduling and confidential information, vital signs
- Orders – status of orders is available, e.g. open and overdue orders
- Referrals – details of the referred to physician are now displayed
eRX New Features
Ability to differentiate between the “Prescriber of Record” and the signer of the prescription. This should help avoid having to change the physician’s name on refill requests.
- Ability to document reasons why a prescriber may override warnings.
- Querying on behalf of others to get Medication Eligibility and Med Fill History
- Save and Send action activated for refill requests for scheduled drugs. The prescription can be automatically faxed.
- Automatically create new pharmacy
- Prescription Field Changes
- Save and Print Immediately
- Renew Prescriptions from Summary Page
- Warning Enhancements
- Associate Prescription with Diagnosis
Mark Prescriptions “Reviewed”
- Prescriptions View Changes
- Icon Removed
Medical Management Users
- Allow printed prescriptions to display pharmacy information or remain blank
- Display drug description for un-coded medications in medication history query
- Prescribing for the patient with multiple coverage under one PBM
New Policies
- Record locking
- Co-Signature
- Clinical decision support
- Reminders snooze period default
New Forms and Enhancements to Existing Forms Office Memos:
- Patient Instruction
- Reminder (unique type)
Encounters:
- Office Visit
- Office Visit Comprehensive
- In Office Lab
- Vital Signs including pediatric version that displays values that are sensitive to patient age
at the time of the encounter - Telephone Call
- Emergency Notification
- OB Visit
- Office Transcription