Transcript EMIS users Extremis

Taking EMIS to extremes
SCIMP 2013
Dr Duncan Lamont
Getting faster with or
without EMIS
Learn to touch type
Keyboards shortcuts
Dual monitors
EMIS into second gear
Use the function keys - stick a key guide on your
keyboard
Escape to switch between screens
Learn the doubles
F8 F8 to close and save a consultation
Q Q to change quantity/directions on medication
Prescribing - Finding the needle in the
haystack
Load and use a
formulary
Prefilled directions
and quantities
Improved formulary
and guideline
compliance
Incremental searching - ideal for stockings/catheters
Grad - bel - med - san - 2
Graduated compression stocking below knee
medium sand class 2
The power of the space
Use a space as the first character to search
anywhere in the drug name
Ideal when the manufacturer isn’t known
Prescribing demonstration
Synonyms
and the wonderful things you can do with them
Autotext replacement
Contract codes
Trigger templates
Trigger alerts
Synonyms demonstration
–Johnny Appleseed
Coding tricks
Join search terms with /
eg hip/pain
Use synonyms for
difficult codes
Bail out with F4
Coding demonstration
Extremis
An autohotkeys macro
Adds functions to EMIS and labeltrace
Used across Forth Valley
GPs now rely on its functions
Ctrl F1 2 & 3
Quick access to clinical refererence
EMIS drug browser
Web mentor
Easy to customise for your own Web help page
Ctrl F4 labeltrace
Launch direct from consultation
Enables arrow key selection of labels
Keypad selects number of labels
Search review find
Ctrl F6 the best way to search
Search on whole or part of word
Fast
Ctrl F7 one key medication review - from any page
Ctrl F8 Find the next appointment a patient has
Installment Dispensing
Supplements existing functionality
Proper installment dispensing
Click to select interval for dispensing
Optional start and end dates
Free text as well
Pharmacy text
Installments, issue dates and free text
Updates instantly
Only on printed prescription
Installment text
Installments only
Updates after screen change
On ePharmacy message and printed prescription
Y oh Y
Issue and print from past
prescribing
"...got 110 specials this am in
about 40 mins usually would have
taken over an hour - brilliant"
Combination super moves
Y ..... Ctrl-j ...... Ctrl F9
Issue and print from
past prescribing, convert
acute to repeat and
review prescription
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