How to Add Patient Risk on a Provider Note?

Patient > Provider Notes > Current Provider Note

Follow the above mentioned workflow to land on the ‘Provider Notes’ tab.

To open a provider note, click the respective date hyperlink under the ‘Visit’ column.

Provider Notes

To view the ‘Risk’ component on a provider note, enable the user settings. To see how it is done, click here.

From the left tree menu, adjacent to ‘Risk’, click ‘Add’ to record the risk details of a patient.

Risk

Doing so opens the ‘Risk’ screen. Here, by clicking the ‘Add’ button, user can add risk details associated to a patient.

Add Risk

Select a date from the ‘Date’ field. To document the risk intensity, a risk method needs to be selected first. Click the ‘Risk Method’ dropdown to select a risk method.

If ‘American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)’ risk method is selected, the risk intensity is segregated into different risk levels on the basis of the clinical data of the patient. User can select risk level by clicking the relevant radio button.

Add Risk

If a user selects any risk method other than ‘AAFP’, then a ‘Risk Score’ field is displayed next to the ‘Risk Method.’

Any comments related to the patient can be added in the ‘Comment’ box.

Under the ‘Risk History,’ past risk evaluations are displayed.

Once all the required information is selected, click the ‘Save’ button.

Add Risk

Clicking the ‘View Clinical Summary’ button displays the ‘Clinical Summary’ screen where the user can mark the information they want to include in the report.

Clinical Summary

Upon marking the desired information checkbox and clicking ‘OK’, prints the clinical summary report.

Clinical Summary Report

Upon adding the risk level or the score of the patient, all the added risks are listed on the ‘Risk’ tab and the recently added risk is selected by default.

Add Risks

Clicking ‘Accept’ populates the selected patient’s risk details on the provider note in the form of SOAP text.

Soap Text

User can also add ‘Risk’ flag on the ‘Note’ templates page. To view, click here.

NOTE :

Risk date has to be different in case the user wants to record multiple risk records against a specific risk method.

In case a risk has been attached with a note, user has to remove its association from the SOAP text and then open the popup to delete it.

Recording risk on Provider Note for a Patient can be made mandatory when required.

The patient risk levels records can be later submitted to State reporting tom monitor the quality of healthcare provided to users.

Click here to learn how to enable settings for Risk from My Preferences.

When the user tries to sign provider note without recording ‘Risk’, the system displays an alert notification stating:

“You have not documented the risk level for this patient in this encounter. Do you still want to proceed?”

Alert Notification

Clicking on the ‘No’ button returns the user to Provider Note while clicking on the ‘Yes’ button displays another prompt which states:

“You are about to sign note. Click Ok to Sign or Cancel to skip.”

Alert Prompt

Clicking on ‘Ok’ allows to sign the note whereas clicking on ‘Cancel’ returns the user to Provider Note.