Jim,
I like your way. It keeps the patient involved. I have gone back and forth with my Excel spreadsheet idea that I tout on here every so often. Boy, you can make one hell of a face sheet with Excel. Just wish I had one employee that was an Excel guru.
Your way cleans up some of the mistakes. I also wonder how much your patients' seeing "Smoker" helps to cut back on that? Good study?
I have this weird thing that happens on my diagnoses list that maybe Brian can explain. It's rather comical at times although at one time it wasn't. For some reason I cannot explain (unless I was using this diagnosis in Bill Gate's chart -- my play chart -- the diagnosis "ZZ Top" made it into the database. It seems to have spread like a virus. I never notice it, because I don't do the Brian thing with the dropdown UNTIL I order an X-ray or something. Then, there it is, ZZ Top. I wonder how many have gone over, but I assume few, because the radiology department frowns on that diagnosis.
One time, the diagnosis SCAN started getting into charts. Now that is where your system could be either helpful or may not. But, yikes, if they transferred and someone read that.
