Sorry I am slow in joining this thread. It is a followup from another thread.
I tried the confidential tab, and it looks potentially useful; however, I am not sure how to actually put it to use. It is just one data field in a particular chart entry. The real problem I see is how to tell yourself at a later date in a confidential manner that it exists.
Example: A patient comes in asking to be checked for STD's because of an extramarital sex encounter. You are clearly going to want to remember this in future visits. Now, it is not going to further the cause to have the CC: "Extramarital Sex", and the HPI : "Patient states he became intoxicated and had unprotected sex......" if the patient really REALLY does not want anyone finding out about this and assuming the tests are negative. That could all go in the Confidential tab, but there is no confidential pointer shown to the provider to look there, and it won't help to say " See the confidential tab for further information" in the HPI. I guess you could have an encounter that was otherwise entirely blank, or some secret code for the HPI ("Patient reports urethral irritation after eating artichokes"), but that isn't going to help insurance, and probably is fraudulent anyway. So, how would someone proceed to make this tab useful?
