Hi Brian,
I go to the Demographic page and click on Directives and then on edit. I then place one item I want to follow in the "Name" box (e.g. COLONOSCOPY 2007)and the others in the "Description" box.
You cannot go back and add more items in the "Name" box without causing the items in the "Description" box to be deleted.
I then click "SAVE" and I am done.
The primary reason I save my preventive list in this way is that they appear on the Summary Sheet and my receptionist prints the Summary Sheet for each patient visit. This makes the current diagnoses, current meds, and preventive items all immediately reviewable for me and for each patient on each visit. After 30 years of practice, I finally feel that I am being efficient in my patient management. A long time friend and internist visited me today and saw my Amazing Charts and my Summary Sheet protocol for the first time. He is a professor at our local FP residency program and uses their multi million dollar Centricity EHR. He was impressed with the simplicity of the AC and especially liked the Summary Sheet review protocol and the fact that we now have the patient's picture embedded in the chart.
Jim
