Common HPI Template Maintenance

Use Common HPI Template Maintenance to maintain templates consisting of the forty most common HPI (History of Present Illness) elements that a provider sees during an encounter.  A HPI template allows you to quickly enter patient encounter information.  You can maintain a single template or have as many templates as desired including templates that can be used for condition-specific situations such as, diabetes or glaucoma.

Notes:   

• NDS recommends that your practice establishes a standard list for the most common HPI.  You should assign STD as the Template ID and the template name is assigned Standard.

• For more information about working with data in fields, see the Data Entry Guidelines.

Directions:

To see directions for...

• Opening Common HPI Templates, click More.

   

  1.  Click Setup from the Desktop.

  2.  Click Common HPI from the Setup menu.

   

  Common HPI Template Maintenance Window Example:

  

   

• Creating a New Common HPI Template, click More.

   

  To create a new record, click New  from the Toolbar.

  Tip:  To indicate that you are building a new template, the window clears, and the cursor stops at Template ID for your entry.

  Common HPI Template Maintenance Prompts Tip:  To see more information about a field, click the hyperlink for the field name.
  Template ID	Enter the unique identifier to assign for the Template.
  Save	CAUTION All entries are automatically saved without further actions.
  	To view all of the existing HPI templates, click List.  From the list you can select the record to change or delete.
  Template Name	Enter the name of the template.
  Common HPI	To build the list of common HPI: Enter the first HPI element followed by a comma and a space (, ).   Press [TAB] to the next line, then enter the next HPI. Continue in this fashion until all HPI are entered.
  	To return to the Providers menu, click Back to Providers.
  	To return to the Setup menu, click Back To Setup.

   

• Editing an Existing Common HPI Template, click More.

   

  CAUTION:  To avoid losing data, you must save new or changed records.

  1.  To display the record to be changed, enter the Template ID and press [TAB].
  Tip:  If you do not know the Template ID, you can click List  to see a list of HPI templates.

  2.  To position the pointer to the information that you want to change, press [TAB] or click the field using the mouse.

  3.  Enter the data changes.

  4.  To complete the edit process, click in any white space in the window.

   

• Deleting an Existing Common HPI Template, click More.

   

  1.  To display the record to be deleted, enter the Template ID and press [TAB].
  Tip:  If you do not know the Template ID, you can click List  to see a list of HPI templates.

  2.  Click Delete from the Toolbar.

  3.  At the Delete Records prompt, click Delete to delete the record, or click Cancel to escape from the delete routine.

  Example:

  

   

  Note: After you click Delete, the record is deleted.