1. Forms are filled and signed with Acrobat Reader9 pro -ODT drivers physical, Well child Physical forms,Disabilty forms, FMLA forms etc-
I have one of my MA fill in the essential part of the form Name of provider,address of the provider and the patient and whatever they can fill in.
When I have filled in the rest it is printed to the ADOBE printer and saved to the MA's folder for them to fax it out.
It is then saved to the respective folders for future retrieval or refilling of the form.
When you retrieve the form in the future or fill in the next year for eg FMLA or ODT, Yearly sports physical you then highlight and delete the section you need to change and there you have it...
2. When you import stuff into AC under a patients name it will save it one file at a time . Let's say you import labs on 9/12 and the next day on 9/13 --it shows up as 2 different PDF files and when you try to combine them/ stack them it will not allow you to do that.
I have a 1 TB hard drive on one of my worksation computers that I have "shared" so that it is visible to all other workstations including the server.
I have made folders for every possible thing I can think of to make my life and my staff's life easier when we need to search for any file - Corrrespondence, Consultant letters, Labs, Pathology, Pap, Radiology, CT scans, US... A-H, I-P, Q-Z
Using Adobe Acrobat you can combine/stack, unstack,delete while still saving the original file if you wish.
3. As far as Templates are concerned - I have templates for Immunizations,Narcotics, PTINR on my shared hard drive that I explained earlier, using Microsoft Word
I have several Templates created in AC that I have created for each section of the record - History,Physical exam, orders etc for the most common problems I encounter. I just change a few things that are different for each visit.
I hope this helps.
Grenville
