Special Reports Custom Questions feature will allow administrators to create specific, customized questions for any Special Report Category. Special Reports can be made to trigger by responses to questions in the Activity Audit on Page 9 of a chart. They can also be created for non-patient situations by simply selecting Special Reports from the Home Page. Each Special Report Category can be configured with specific email notifications. Custom Reporting will also be available, enabling analysis of the Custom Question responses.
There are four additional Configuration Code Tables for Special Reports. Special Report Custom Fields (Questions) is where the custom questions are created. Special Report Custom Field Options (Answers) is where responses to questions are created using various options, such as Checkboxes, Checkbox/Multiselect, Yes/No, Dropdown/Select List or text. The third option is Special Report Custom Display Fields, which allows administrators to place additional chart-specific fields within the top of a Special Report. Special Report Status allows for the creation of a field within Special Reports to indicate the disposition of the report.
The first step is to develop the custom question(s) that you want to appear in your special reports category(s).
You can place your questions in any order by dragging the rows of this table up or down and then saving the format. You can edit any of the questions or the information by clicking the slide rule icon to the right.
Likewise you can delete a question by clicking the "X" icon to the right. The system will warn you to ensure you want to delete this question and what occurs when you do:
If the Special Report has a selected Response Type of either Checkbox/Multiselect or Dropdown/Select List, the "Special Report Custom Field Options (Answers)" code table is where administrators will define the various values for the questions. All questions that are created in Special Report Custom Fields will appear on the list to the left and the response text is followed by the question that it belongs to. This will allow administrators to review the questions and answers in a simplistic view.
There are 4 items to configure per answer:
Once you have completed placing all of the possible answers in for the appropriate questions, refresh the screen and they will appear in order by question with the answers following.
You can now create Special Report statuses in order to track special reports and their completion. That field will appear on the Special Reports. The field has no additional functionality and is just a simple save & edit field. Via the services "Special Report Status" code table you can define multiple statuses and give them a sequence, which is the order in which they appear.
The status field appears at the top bar of information with the special report as seen below.
The custom questions appear after the Categories and Subject and before the Narrative. Custom questions do not show when creating a new Special Report until you select at least one category that has custom questions defined. Please see below for an example of the custom questions we developed earlier.
The search page has been updated to include the Status and Custom Criteria box. For now the custom criteria only searches against special report fields. The search output includes the status field.
Likewise, the custom reports section has been updated with the ability to report on the custom questions and answers. Because the special report can and will have multiple answers & questions, then adding these to the output will result in a row per answer/question.
The fields can be specified under the Criteria as well as the Output tabs as seen below.