# Perform a Category Search

HMP's Search plug-in provides category-based searches that allow you to view all items that fall within the secondary category you select. This feature currently includes the following main and secondary categories:

- Domain:
Domain-based secondary categories include Meds, Labs, Vitals, Orders, Documents, and Observations.
- Lab Group:
Lab groups include secondary categories such as chemistry (serum), fluids, toxicology, and so forth.
- LOINC Category:
Secondary items within the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) category include liver function, renal function, enzymes, and many other standardized terms.
- Therapeutic Drug Class:
Secondary items for this category include beta blockers, angiotension-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, and so forth.

To perform a category search:

1. Click the Search by Category button located at the Search box's right. The feature displays a dropdown menu containing main categories.
2. Select a main category from the dropdown menu. The feature displays a list of secondary categories.
3. Select an item within the secondary category list.

## Clinical Practice Environment

With its CPE (Clinical Practice Environment) application, the HMP Team Facing framework delivers software that serves healthcare teams and helps meet their needs in caring for our veterans. CPE software will help transition Veterans Health Administration from a chart-centric model of care to a team-based, patient-centered model of care through advanced clinical software and a modern software architecture. This software represents an effort to reestablish close clinician-IT collaborative relationships and to build field-driven, web-based modules that meet the following functional and technology goals.

- Functional Goals:
  - Comprehensive, coded, integrated data
  - Knowledge-driven, context-based decision support
  - Role- and conditions-based workflow-driven systems
  - Multi-patient, team-based care
- Technology Goals:
  - Open source, with a service-oriented architecture (SOA)
  - Web-based, with a flexible, scalable architecture
  - Context-aware, with an extensible, modular platform

While its initial operating capabilities are present, HMP software is a work-in-progress. Specific features and instructions for using them will evolve as our partners in the clinical community evaluate the software and provide feedback, thus realizing the close collaboration between IT and clinical interests that informed this software's genesis.