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Hints and Tips
Palmedic Demographics (used
in Transcriptionist and via the note plug-in macro button)
HPI
Palmedic will search for the most recent note titled "HPI"
and enter it in place of this demographic label.
- USE: Extremely useful
in a hospital setting where one can enter a patient's history of present
illness into a note entitled "HPI" and have this history automatically
entered into a History and Physical AND a Discharge Summary
Insert Note ('Title')
Palmedic will search for the most recent note titled "Title"
(changed to any title the user wishes) and enter it in place of this demographic
label.
Insert Test ('Title')
Palmedic will search for the most recent test titled "Title"
(changed to any title the user wishes) and enter its results in place of
this demographic label.
Medications (current)
Palmedic searches through a patient's medications, and lists all medications
that have not been marked as discontinued in the note in place of the demographic
label.
Physical Exam
Palmedic will search for the most recent note titled "Physical
Exam" and enter it in place of the demographic label.
Physical Exam (admission)
Palmedic will search for the most recent note titles "Admission
Physical Exam" and enter it in place of this demographic label.
- USE: Extremely useful
in a hospital setting where one can enter a patient's physical exam at
the time of admission into a note entitled "Admission Physical Exam"
and have it automatically entered into a History and Physical AND a Discharge
Summary
PMH
Palmedic will search through all the patient's problems (as entered
in the Problems section of the program), collecting each that contains
"PMH" in the problem type input line (this line can also contain
other descriptors in addition to PMH), and placing the resulting text in
place of the demographic label.
Tests (current)
Palmedic searches through the patient's tests, finding all tests within
the last 24 hours, and entering those tests' results into the note in place
of the demographic label.
Vital Signs
Palmedic will search through the patient's tests and find the latest
entry with the title "Vital Signs." It will then substitute this
data for the demographic label in the note.
Writing Formulas for Calculation Tests
Your Newton will inform you if there is an error in your formula script;
however, the error codes it gives are cryptic and do not tell you where
you went wrong. Here are some secrets to creation of scripts:
a) no "unusual" characters should be used as field labels.
For example, the label "%O2" is an illegal label because of the
"%" character, "A-a" is also illegal because of the
"-" character.
b) no spaces are allowed in field labels
c) certain field labels are reserved words in the NewtonScript language
and so are illegal. Examples include: "in", "of", "or",
"and", etc. You should use abbreviations for labels that do not
make sense as another word
d) the above rules apply _especially_ to field labels of calculated
fields. Your Newton will "freeze" if you break one of these rules
within a calculated field label
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