Another thing they don’t tell you is there is a word limit in text boxes. In my process of trying to make anything customizable, I want with the most basic way of chunking notes into HPI, history, assessment, plan and even then I wasn’t able to complete my notes due to the character limit. If you are messaging a patient and get any conversation thread going it will only take you so far because of the character limit so you have to start with a new message to make another short term thread. Patients will get frustrated as well because they give up on sending messages which means more phone calls to the clinic that could have been easily managed by with back and forth messaging.
What they don’t tell you is how tedious and trying it is to make these fancy customized templates. This video is misleading as it claims all you have to do is scroll through their templates and copy/paste what parts you like in your own. The process of having to configure every. single. function of said template in Microsoft word. You need to in out the data in the template, download the data and configure it into Microsoft word and God forbid you make any mistake. Once you upload it, if there is a mistake, you need to download it again in Microsoft word and try and figure out where the mistake is, upload it again and then repeat this process thousands of times and maybe, just maybe you can a section or two after several hours of your precious time!
Another thing they don’t tell you is there is a word limit in text boxes. In my process of trying to make anything customizable, I want with the most basic way of chunking notes into HPI, history, assessment, plan and even then I wasn’t able to complete my notes due to the character limit. If you are messaging a patient and get any conversation thread going it will only take you so far because of the character limit so you have to start with a new message to make another short term thread. Patients will get frustrated as well because they give up on sending messages which means more phone calls to the clinic that could have been easily managed by with back and forth messaging.
What they don’t tell you is how tedious and trying it is to make these fancy customized templates. This video is misleading as it claims all you have to do is scroll through their templates and copy/paste what parts you like in your own. The process of having to configure every. single. function of said template in Microsoft word. You need to in out the data in the template, download the data and configure it into Microsoft word and God forbid you make any mistake. Once you upload it, if there is a mistake, you need to download it again in Microsoft word and try and figure out where the mistake is, upload it again and then repeat this process thousands of times and maybe, just maybe you can a section or two after several hours of your precious time!