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This relates back to my post on user-specified drop list values. Increasingly, practices and hospitals are sending patients to free-standing labs for various lab draws and imaging. Employers are also sending employees to such facilities for random drug testing and workers comp claims. Right now, I have an upcoming appointment where I'll be going to

I don't know about anywhere else, but around here, a number of hospitals have merged, becoming one overarching hospital with multiple locations. Both hospitals and some of the larger practices in the area have opened satellite facilities, as well. Since we have the ability to add multiple, named locations for each contact, shouldn't we be able to ...

This is a very useful snapshot of current medical information, useful for more than summer camp and school activities. Others have suggested renaming it. I think giving it a more generic name, like ''Current Medical Brief'' and providing for an optional, user-specified sub-title where the user might specify who it is for or its purpose, might ...

There are name suffixes (e.g., Jr., Sr., III). There are post-nomial abbreviations for degrees, licenses, and certifications (e.g., M.D., PhD, F.N.P., LPC, LPN, etc.). it is possible for someone to have either or both, and for both to be necessary in the Contact entry to differentiate between father and son in the same practice. John Doe, M.D., and

Many fields have drop list controls. Examples include name prefixes and suffixes. units of measure in test results, frequency in medications, Religion in Basic Information, and many more. Most have an ellipsis selection to support user-supplied values. In some cases, the user-supplied value becomes a valid entry in the list as long as there is a ...

In the Views menu on the left of the screen, mouseover 'Planning' and a help balloon pops up. In this help text, the word 'example' is spelled 'exmaple.'

I have a CBC drawn at least once a month. The WBC and some other results come back as very large numbers per liter, expressed in scientific notation (e.g., 7.0 10e9/L). How should results like these be entered (both the value itself and the unit of measure)?

I've been evaluating v3.0.1, and see from browsing the forum that the Medications section is undergoing a redesign. I've recently had a lot of hospital and new doctor visits. In my experience, both as an EMT and as a patient, the EMT's are happy if they get a list of medications, at all, much less actual doseage information. Doctors, on the other ...

I am a dialysis patient. I added a Treatment record for dialysis with a start date of 14 November 2017 - the date of my first acute dialysis - and no end date, because it is on-going on a  regular schedule (in my case, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, unless I need to shift the schedule or add an extra treatment for some reason). I ...

I realize that the Emergency Card, by definition, can't include everything; still,  I would like to suggest a couple of items for consideration.Devices. ED staff, and personnel supporting the ED (anesthesiology, radiology, etc.) may not need to know about every device and appliance one has, but they do need to know you have a pacemaker or ICD,