Clinic Manager

Create and maintain your register and export patient clinical measurements - screen shots from the programme

Creating the initial registers for diabetes or IHD can be a lot of work. So too can maintaining those registers. In this menu are a number of tools to make the creation and maintenance of your registers much easier. For example, in Medical Director you will find only the names of patients who have the diagnosis of diabetes correctly recorded. What is different here is that the menu item shown below; "finding diabetes" searches for both coded and un-coded diagnoses, and tells you which they are. For example, in my Practice one of the doctors has recorded type 2 diabetes as "MO diabetes" - meaning "maturity onset." Medical Director does not recognise that as a diagnosis of diabetes.This menu "finding diabetes" finds all of those. What's more, if you want to update your register, just run this menu item and Publish it to Excel or Word - as per the menus. A quick check of un-coded diagnoses, and the register is again up to date.

If you are creating a mail out for people to attend your diabetes clinic, you may want to select only those people who do not have a complete cycle of care. If you record cycles of care in the patient's Past History, then you can exclude those whose cycle is complete from the mail out.

In this menu, first choose "finding management plans and cycles of care." Publish this to an Excel or Word document. It will list all those 2517's etc recorded in the Past History. Then choose "Diabetes - choose which patient records to export" and select which patients to send the letter to.