Personally, I would like to be able to use a previous template for the physical only. If I do an annual exam on a patient, there likely will be little to change the following time I see them, say, to follow up their BP. Their murmur should still be there, their DJD changes persist, etc. I would like to just right click and be able to choose a previous exam and then make any adjustments in the note. While the exam may not change, the plans rarely are the same so the current option of using a previous note are not helpful to me. SoapWare had this feature and it is one thing I miss.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "