I have been playing with the advanced search function. I am looking for two things.
A. Areas of concern for improving the quality of care we render.
B. Tools for "cleaning and pruning" the database.
The advanced function is very easy to use, simply click the button, a box opens and you add criteria to the box over and over until you are done, then start search.
For example: to find all of your diabetic patients, you must search for 250.00 and 250.02 and 250.42 and etc. You get the idea.
To work on the quality of the database I am trying to find easy tools, but the system is a little primitive. In our office one physician was asking the MA's to enter the medications. This resulted in the database being corrupted as 'lasix' and 'furosemide' are both entered. To identify those patients, (to be forwarded back to the guilty party) we can search for Lasix, then for furosemide, then compare the lists manually and pull the chart numbers that appear twice. Not ideal.
