UnChartAh, too many clicks. Macros are one of my loves the last few years. Reduce a single thought into a single physical action. It’s not that I can’t click 5 times to do one thing. Actually, I’m pretty good at clicking. As I’ve mentioned in my article about becoming my patient’s data entry technician, I’ve [...]
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Unfocus: The mouseless plan
It’s difficult to get a visit summary done in real-time without tradeoffs. (Sarcasm alert.) I’m awesome at tech can totally get them done. Why can’t everyone just click quickly? Seriously, though, I end up having one of these options: Ignore the patient and what they are saying while I click away Dead Airspace while the [...]
Using (Not Just Medical) Dragon with e-MDs
Voice Recognition has been just around the corner for at least 5 years. My clinic has a number of docs who’ve been pretty sucessful over the years. We bought Dragon Professional years ago and spent some serious cash on some Medical Vocabularies. I’ve tried it repeatedly over the years but my dictation is pretty error-prone [...]
How much time can Macros Save?
In the background of my computer, I’ve been tracking my work lately — at a very low level. How many mouseclicks? How many characters typed? Honestly, sometimes it feels like that’s my job description. I’ve been using Autohotkey for macros and abbreviations for most of the 3 years I have used e-MDs. I’ve got dozens [...]
Snappy Charting
Note: This article requires 20+ minutes to read the accompanying materials and videos. With all these Gigaherz and Gigabytes and stuff, why is charting so slow? We all have gut awareness of speed. Snappy. Quick. Pop. ….These aren’t really the words people think of when interacting with an EHR. And this isn’t a computing problem [...]
Macro to add flowsheets in e-MDs
In our clinic we wanted to use vitals flowsheets but they were turned on in most charts. We have about 15K patients. So if it takes 15 seconds to open a chart and turn it on, you’ve got 62 hours of mindless clicking for someone to do. e-MDs has a script (SQL) with this functionality [...]
Meaningful Click for e-MDs
With Meaningful Use there will be a lot more clicking in life. Making sure that a patient’s chart is up to date (Problems, Allergies, Medications, etc) is more important than ever. Especially now that patients will be getting copies of their clinical summaries with many visits. Meaningful Click is an app for Docs using e-MDs [...]
e-MDs Macros
Here’s my package of e-MDs macros. You can see the source and compile it with Autohotkey. Your “I’m done” makes me one fast dude, and I’ve used it for most of a year. –Keith Toms, MD. Hopkinsville, KY Why Download and install it on every computer in your company? Automatic typo correction for the ~5K [...]
Un-Unsigned
Much e-MDs is focused on visits to the doctor. (Chart, Bill, Schedule). But it also has panel-managment tools like Order Tracking, Refills, Unsigned Notes. These let you at a glance see how your practice is doing overall. Un-Unsigned is a panel management tool for making sure that you’re signing off the thousands of documents that [...]
Prevention Checklist
Here’s my checklist maker for preventative recommendations in e-MDs. It uses a Word Form, pulls the patients age/sex from the form, and then creates an individualized checklist. So 22yo male will get different recommendations than a 64yo female. Consider this a proof-of-concept as of 5/5/2010. I’m still refining it for my use and hope to [...]
Find and textutil
I recently had a huge folder of word documents that I wanted to make into text documents. Unfortunately they were spread in a number of subfolders. Since there were about 36K files, I sure didn’t want to do this manually. (I was going to use these files to setup Dragon Naturally Speaking.) Mac OS X [...]
Auto-sorting Chart Notes
Has this ever happened to you? A patient comes in to tell you about a problem, and, golly, they don’t tell you the story in the order that you want to chart it. The patient tells you some HPI, then mentions a bit of social history, skips to medical history and goes back to the [...]
Charting Efficiency
Why is Charting Efficiency so Important? If you’ve done this business for any amount of time, that seems like a silly question. There is so much work to be done that no doc has time to waste on charting. Everyone develops shortcuts and tricks to try and save time. Examples: Voice Dictation Paper Templates Mental [...]
