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Located atop all single-patient clinical views, HMP's Patient Bar plug-in provides a consistent, safe way to identify patients. Its ubiquitous at-a-glance summary of your patient's key identifiers—such as the patient's name (which appears in large font so it's easy to make sure you're entering information for the correct patient), gender, date of birth (DOB), and so forth echoes what you see in the top left section of the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) patient bar. The HMP Patient Bar plug-in also includes the patient's location and care-team information, and contains a postings section that lets you know if your patient has warning or crisis notes, directives, allergies, or patient-record flags.
Clicking the plug-in's demographics summary area gives you immediate access to additional demographic information—some of which (telephone numbers) you can edit—while clicking the postings area of the patient bar allows you to view details about the patient's allergies, warning notes, and so forth. Clicking the Care Team area gives you a display of care-team information, such as the care team's name, the primary provider's name and contact information, and more.
Although the patient-selection feature is technically not part of the Patient Bar plug-in, the plug-in displays demographic and postings-related information only for the patient you have selected. If you haven't selected a patient, the patient bar displays a No Patient Selected message.
To select a patient, view your CPRS ult patient list, or view a set of patients in the Clinic or Ward list of your choosing, then click to select the patient from the list. Patient-selection lists are available atop the application's left-most pane.
You can search for a particular patient by typing the patient's name in the Search box.
Read moreThe Patient Bar plug-in displays the following postings in its right corner. All postings appear in white type against a red background.
If none of these items is available for the patient you've selected, the plug-in displays the word Postings in white type against the Patient Bar's background and below it, also in white type against the background, the word None.
View Postings DetailsFor easy reference, the Patient Bar displays the following demographic summary atop all single-patient views:
For inpatients, the patient bar summary includes the following information:
For outpatients you have selected from a Clinic list, the patient bar summary includes the following information:
In its center section, the Patient Bar plug-in displays summary patient care information—either outpatient information from Patient Care Management Module (PCMM) or inpatient information from the Admissions/Discharge/Transfer package. Depending on patients' assignments, this section contains: