Care Planning and Patient Education
CarePlan is an order selection method that allows the physician to create a comprehensive set of prescriptions, orders, and patient instructions in a fraction of the time it would take to do manually. This is critical, because computerized physician order entry has traditionally been a challenge in the physician workflow. Care plans contain the appropriate medications, orders, instructions, referral suggestions, and health maintenance or disease management elements for the specific disease and clinical presentation.
Benefits
- Physician groups and individual physicians may modify these templates to suit local preferences
- A set of commonly used orders can be set as the default for any given clinical presentation (e.g. asthma, moderately severe, in a child), so even complex diagnostic or treatment plans can be created in seconds
- Once a care plan is created, it not only automatically communicates prescriptions and orders, it posts information to the note; updates the problem, medication, and active orders lists; and generates customized patient instructions