Working with Placeholders in Notes and Custom Paragraphs

You can add placeholders to flag areas of a note, template, or custom paragraph that you want to remember to complete before saving a note. Do so by typing ### in the body of the note or custom paragraph. Press the F2 key to move between placeholders when editing and completing your note. The LMR checks the note for any ### placeholders when you attempt to finalize a note. If the note contains at least one of these placeholders, the note cannot be signed. Instead, the LMR displays the message: "Required field(s) missing (identified as ### in the text of the note). Please enter text in these fields before saving the note as final. (Use the F2 button to go to these fields.)"

Note: The LMR does not prompt you to replace these placeholders when a custom paragraph is used to add comments for medications, problems, procedures, or clinical messages.