Happy Tuesday!
It’s time again for Tech Tuesday; a weekly series of helpful hints, tips, and workflows that you can use to improve your skills in Accuro®EMR.
Forms in Accuro are meant to be the closest thing you can get to the paper forms on a computer. They look and print nearly identically to their original paper clone. The advantage of Accuro forms is they pre-fill with the patient data and are saved right to the patient chart.
A common use for forms is lab requisitions. Typically, the forms use checkboxes so you can open the form, check (click) on the tests you want done, then print. The tip this week is how to create pre-filled forms for (in this example) commonly ordered sets of tests. The idea is creating multiple lab requisition forms pre-filled with the tests selected. Here is how you do this.
Steps:
VERY IMPORTANT that it is very clear that the form has pre-filled items. Yes, this can save time but it can be dangerous if a user opens a form, does not see that it has something selected, and sends it off potentially ordering a dangerous test!
You may make as many copies of a form as you like.
Note that forms that you download in the Form Editor may have been pre-filled by the clinic that created it so inspect downloaded forms carefully, and as with all changes to templates, forms, and configurations please communicate with your users and get appropriate authorization before proceeding.
Hope you found this helpful! Stay tuned for next week’s Tech Tuesday!
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