New feature – Display of formal ICD-10 description in the Find Problem dialog

Published on November 15, 2018October 5, 2019 by David Gonzalez MD Category: New feature

AngleSearch users appreciate the clinician-friendly problem descriptions provided by the IMO terminology set we integrate with. While perfect for the EMR, those IMO problem descriptions do not flow over to the practice management system in some practices. Often, only the formal ICD-10 descriptions are used on the practice management side.

One practice has requested that AngleSearch render the formal ICD-10 problem description alongside the IMO problem description to help providers maintain awareness about what information will be flowing over to practice management. This optional feature was implemented in a way where if the ICD-10 description contains the word “unspecified”, that word will be highlighted so the providers can identify opportunities to make their diagnoses as clinically specific as possible. If the ICD-10 description does not contain the word “unspecified”, it is rendered in a lighter color so as not to be distracting.

The ICD-10 description can now be rendered just below the IMO description field

If you would like to enable the display of the formal ICD-10 description in the Find Problem dialog, this can easily be activated. Please just let us know.

New feature – Removing old medications quickly

Published on July 28, 2018October 5, 2019 by David Gonzalez MD Category: AngleSearch, New feature

As with the problem list, many practices have patient charts with a large number of medications that are no longer active and should be removed, but due to all the overhead involved with marking them as inactive and setting the reason for removal, they may just languish on the med list.

We’ve now added an optional menu to the medication list (exposed by clicking on a med) that bypasses the Remove Medication dialog and allows providers to complete a medication (i.e., change the med status to ‘inactive’ and set the reason to ‘Regimen complete’) with fewer clicks. The goal is to make it super fast and easy for providers to remove all the old medications in the list just as soon as they are identified.

Removing a medication can now be done with fewer clicks

If a medication should be removed for any reason other than “Regimen complete”, then the provider can still access the old “Remove…” menu option, which will open the Remove Medication dialog, just as before.

Like all new user-facing features added to AngleSearch, this menu choice will only appear if your practice “opts in” to this feature. This allows you to coordinate new features with any training that you might like to do.

If you would like to activate this option for your practice, please just shoot us an email and let us know.

New feature – Removing old problems from the problem list quickly

Published on June 11, 2018October 5, 2019 by David Gonzalez MD Category: AngleSearch, New feature

Many practices have patient charts with a large number of problems that are no longer active and should be removed, but the providers often don’t have the time to invest in that kind of routine chart maintenance. The more old problems that accumulate in the chart, the less likely they are to be removed due to all the overhead involved with marking them as inactive and setting the reason for removal.

AngleSearch has always included the ability to remove problems, but up until now, we’ve done so via the Centricity Remove Problem dialog. Removing a problem, therefore, wasn’t necessarily any easier to do in AngleSearch as it was from the Update Problem dialog.

We’ve now added an optional menu to the problem list (exposed by clicking on a problem) that bypasses the Remove Problem dialog and allows providers to resolve a problem (i.e., change the problem status to ‘inactive’ and set the reason to ‘Resolved’) with fewer clicks. The goal is to make it super fast and easy for providers to remove all the old problems in the list just as soon as they are identified.

Removing a problem can now be done with fewer clicks

If a problem should be removed for any reason other than “Resolved”, then the provider can still access the old “Remove…” menu option, which will open the Remove Problem dialog, just as before.

If you would like to activate this option for your practice, please just shoot us an email and let us know.

AngleMD is always looking for ways to make AngleSearch even more valuable to your providers and practice administrators. If there are new features you would like to see in the product, please let us know. Thanks to Jude A. for suggesting this feature.