External Resources for Patient Education

Welcome to 5.8!! Let us all keep our fingers crossed. We hope today will go smoothly.

There are a number of cool things that I want to show you all, but for today I want to share with you new options for Patient Education.

Healthwise is still available & can be saved to the patient visit. The Check Out staff should be able to see it in the right navigation bar & therefore be able to hand it to the patient. Annette & I will make sure we train the staff to look for it. Until that is fully implemented you may want to tell your patients to ask for it at Check Out. Once we go to Portal you can send the Healthwise information to the Portal - more on this later.

We have also added Healthykids as an education source. To find it you must look in the problems module. There are 2 ways to get to this module. One is using the right hand navigation bar and it is in the lower Tic-Tac-Toe boxes under Dx. The other way is to use the new Patient Information Bar at the top of the visit. If you click into the number after the word problems it will open the module.

From here you can see 2 tabs - Problem List & Billing ICD list. If you have given the patient a Dx in the assesment/plan section of the SOAP note, you will see it under the  Billing Tab. If not, you can add a problem ( see the button in the left lower corner) from here to the problem list. Either way, from the Problem list or the Billing List, you can see a tab with a blue circle called Resources :

If you click on the Resources button you get a drop down. Internal Patient Education takes you to Healthwise, from here Heathwise will suggest Patient Education that is close to the Dx you have selected. You can pick from the options presented or search for something else.

You can also pick External Patient ( or Provider) References and it will take you to the Healthykids website where you can find the info you want and right click to print. This information does not save to the encounter but you could say you gave the information in your note if you wanted to.

The same thing exists in the Medication Module, but the External Resource is Epocrates. Once you click into the website you go to "Epocrates on-line" to search. There is Patient Information on medications here if you wish to give more than the monograph. If you are not registered with Epocrates you may have limited use of this site.

Tell me how it works for you.