and 
buttons). The LMR retains your selections for subsequent logins.General - Continued modifications to the look-and-feel of the LMR have been implemented to improve consistency.
Summary - The Summary screen (from the Patient Chart) has been significantly redesigned, and is now customizable (see below). The default layout installed with this release includes the same data elements (or tabs) that are available on the existing Summary screen. See Summary Overview for details. This redesign allows the following improvements:
Note: If desired, you can revert back to the traditional Summary layout. To do so, click the Custom tab on the Summary (or select the Custom Summary option from the Custom menu) and click Default to Traditional Summary.
- Includes an Add New button, allowing medications, problems, procedures, and allergies to be added with a single click.
- Includes links to health maintenance, notes, and visit history from the Summary. Also allows other specialty components, such as the Infusion Flowsheet, to be added, if desired.
- Allows
you to expand and collapse detail for each tab (using the and
buttons). The LMR retains your selections for subsequent logins.
- Faster screen display.
Custom Summary - The Summary screen (from the Patient Chart) is now customizable. You can create one or more custom summary layouts, selecting as many or as few clinical tabs as desired. You can select any custom summary as the default Summary. See Custom Summary Overview and Creating a Custom Summary for details.
Schedule - Includes the following enhancements:
- For providers only, a link has been added to the schedule, when applicable, to indicate the existence of a note associated with the visit. See Working with the Schedule for details. Clicking this link displays the associated note. This change does not apply to the Schedule seen by other clinical staff (due to system performance issues).
- For MGH only, an "Arrived" flag has been added to indicate that the patient status has been set to arrived in the registration system.
Medications - The process of adding medications has been streamlined so that you can now search and select medications from the same screen. Additionally, if the search does not return the desired results, you can now launch a new search from the same screen.
Problems - You can now generate a new search with a single click if the initial problem search does not return the desired results.
Notes - Favorites are included in search results, if applicable, when adding new medications and templates from templates.
Flowsheets - Links have been added between pediatric growth chart screens to improve navigation.
Reminders - Drug/Lab reminders are released to randomized clinics for study.
Oncology - Includes the following enhancements:
- If a patient has only one infusion flowsheet, it is immediately displayed after clicking the Infusion Flowsheet option from the Oncology menu. Previously, the application displayed a flowsheet selector screen.
- Karnofsky scale and problem list screen have been added to the BMT Flowsheet.
Reports - Includes the following enhancements:
- You can now customize the Health Form Report when printing it to exclude sensitive data elements that may not be appropriate to share with schools, employers, etc. See Printing a Health Form Report for details.
- The abbreviations "NKA" and "NKDA" have been translated to "No Known Allergies" and "No Known Drug Allergies," respectively, on the Patient/Med Allergy List Report to eliminate confusion.