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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
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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
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
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
www.dlamont.co.uk/ehealth/extremis (It's free)