Hi Gang,
Merry Christmas! Between the FAA course, being under the weather with bronchitis, the holiday, and seeing patients, I've kinda kept a low profile lately. Sorry for my absence.
Jon has an "alpha" of some new features coming along hopefully in a couple weeks, and when we apply our patch set to that, we will then forward what we have to Jon, to apply or not as he sees fit.
In Dr. Vinny's Private Patchset are:
An updated template parser - with a few new fields. I'll attempt to add the ones people are asking for. If the data is either easily created from the current patient recordset or already there, I can add things easily. Since this is stand-alone code, I can't imagine Jon would have a problem dropping this in.
Context sensitive prescribing - If the medication is a tablet, the SIG is in tablets. If capsules, in capsules. If otic drops, is in drops and which ear. If an inhaler, is in puffs. Topicals have topical instructions, etc etc. Covers about 98% of the meds I've encountered, including some weird ones I played with for testing. It parses the medication name, looking for clues as to what form the medication is in and where its used. (ie, Cortisporin Otic is NOT dispensed in tablets to be taken BID lol, and the key word "Otic" is in the parse tree, so it's recognised as ear drops)
The dates on prescriptions, orders, vaccinations etc are the chart note's date, not the current date. Sounds like a simple patch, but it changes the API to a number of forms. I HOPE Jon will accept this patch, it's saved me from writing things with wrong dates since unfortunately we're not in real time in our office.
The ability to send a COPY of an order to a SECOND e-mail box in the system. We keep a mailbox for "Records" and one for "Referrals" so that the girls know what's coming in for them to do. We also changed the orders to allow changing from "electronic signature" to a signature line by checking or unchecking a box.
There are a few other odds and ends as well, all written to improve usability.
V.
