Adam,
I am confused. Don't you have to enter the PMH only once and then it keeps showing up with each subsequent encounter? When I do an annual exam or see a new patient I have a template which has:
SURGERIES:
MEDICAL:
INTERVENTIONS:
Pneumovax:
Tetanus:
Zostavax:
Mammogram:
Pap:
Bone Density Scan:
Colonoscopy:

My MA fills all of this in going from the written form the patient fills out before I ever see them. If they are diabetic I may also add EYE EXAM: or, if they have something else that needs tracking, such as Barret's I may add EGD:, etc.

Then every time I open a note, the information is right there. I can add to it ad lib if things have occured since I last saw the patient. This works well for me. I rarely look at the Summary window.


Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "