1st Step: Identify the alert.
- The following website is recommended: www.guideline.gov, here you will find some guide references that will help create the preferred alerts of the office.
2nd Step: Create alert.
We selected the following guide for example purposes:
Screening for cervical Cancer
(http://www.guideline.gov/content.aspx?id=38572)
- Go to Settings screen.
- Select the Clinical button and then press the Clinical Decision Support button.
- Press the Add button.
- Since the alert is related to a diagnosis select the alert type of Problems.
- Write the alert description. The alert must be as specific as possible.
- Select the frequency that alert will be displayed.
- Select the patient group that you wish to add alert. The alert saved will apply for female patients between the ages of 21 to 65 years.
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Write the alert, the contraindications or the of the alert to be displayed.
- If alert created is based in a guide fill the following fields, References, Clinical Guidelines, Bibliographic Citation, Intervention Developer, Funding Source and the link. This information will be in the selected guide.
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Select the Diagnosis tab located in the right side of screen to add the diagnosis that will be applied to alert.
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In the displayed screen press the Add button.
- In the Multiple Code Selection screen search for the code that applies to alert. (For this alert we will search for the following code C539)
- Select code and make a double clic over the diagnosis.
- Select with a check mark located next in the line of diagnosis, to indicate that alert must be displayed when diagnosis is present in patient. .
- Press Save to store alert.
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