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Taking EMIS to extremes

Learn advanced tips & tricks to optimize EMIS usage. Improve speed & accuracy with shortcuts, dual monitors, & advanced searching techniques. Enhance prescribing efficiency & coding skills. Discover Extremis for enhanced functionality. Free resource at www.dlamont.co.uk/ehealth/extremis.

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Taking EMIS to extremes

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  1. Taking EMIS to extremes • SCIMP 2013 • Dr Duncan Lamont

  2. Getting faster with or without EMIS • Learn to touch type • Keyboards shortcuts • Dual monitors

  3. 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

  4. Prescribing - Finding the needle in the haystack • Load and use a formulary • Prefilled directions and quantities • Improved formulary and guideline compliance

  5. 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

  6. Prescribing demonstration

  7. Synonyms and the wonderful things you can do with them • Autotext replacement • Contract codes • Trigger templates • Trigger alerts

  8. Synonyms demonstration –Johnny Appleseed

  9. Coding tricks • Join search terms with / • eg hip/pain • Use synonyms for difficult codes • Bail out with F4

  10. Coding demonstration

  11. Extremis • An autohotkeys macro • Adds functions to EMIS and labeltrace • Used across Forth Valley • GPs now rely on its functions

  12. Ctrl F1 2 & 3 • Quick access to clinical refererence • EMIS drug browser • Web mentor • Easy to customise for your own Web help page

  13. Ctrl F4 labeltrace • Launch direct from consultation • Enables arrow key selection of labels • Keypad selects number of labels

  14. 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

  15. Installment Dispensing • Supplements existing functionality • Proper installment dispensing • Click to select interval for dispensing • Optional start and end dates • Free text as well

  16. 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

  17. 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"

  18. Combination super moves • Y ..... Ctrl-j ...... Ctrl F9 • Issue and print from past prescribing, convert acute to repeat and review prescription

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

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