Doc:
I will tell you that some of the things you are looking for may be coming your way in version 4.0. However, that is probably still months away.
In the meantime, I was brainstorming to come up with a way to do what you are suggesting with the present technology. I have tried to break down the task you wish to perform into a few key concepts, thinking that might lead to an interim solution:
1. You wish to be able to store information dedicated to chronic disease states in some specified area. Right now, Jim Blaine is (mis)using the "Alerts & Directives" portion of the Summary Sheet for that purpose. See
this post for details. Start at the linked post and keep reading.
2. You want to be able to link from the patient's clinic note entry area to some outside source of data about the patient. The only way we can do this presently is with %fillers, like %Mr, %FNAME, etc. (Go to
this post if you don't know what I'm talking about). This technique would only work if you already had predefined fields, somewhere in the patient's file, for the data you wish to retrieve.
3. You might like to have an area where you could store snippets of text, links to images, things that might not fit into a standard-sized Amazing Charts file. The only way to do this is via Imported Images. Bert has posted before about using Excel files as summary sheets in
this post.
Once you have created such a file, you can put anything you want into it, name it after the patient, and then drag'n'drop the Excel file into the patient's folder under Imported Items. An Excel icon will appear there and any time you click on that icon, it will open the Excel file and display whatever you put into it.
Note that you can also create links to OneNote files, which can contain links or images that might not fit into Excel.
Well, that was a long post! Chew all that over, and see if there's anything you can use! If anything is unclear, let me know.
