How to edit the patient results letter

Go to Inbox...Manage Preferences

Select the Behavior Prefs tab then Reminder/Letter

Click the Header/Footer button at the bottom right

Edit the note

A likely edit that many may want to make is to remove the Dear John casual salutation. You can simply delete that selection.

Here's the note after the Dear John is deleted

Inserting other standard text

If you want to insert some different text, you need to put the cursor on a blank line and then select the desired text from the drop down.

After the [Patient's Last Name] is entered, for example, you can now type Dear Mr. or Ms. in front of it, or something similar.

When you've edited the note to your heart's content, hit the OK button

On the next screen, hit that OK button

The system will then tell you it is saving your new letter template.

Once the settings are saved, hit OK and you are done.

Using Macros

Debra Thornton created another tutorial about creating macros.

Check it out below or click here to view it in a new window.

Making a Personal Note Type List

For users of PowerChart who are in the hospital making different types of notes, the default Note Type List is long and cumbersome. Here's just a small portion of it:

It's only a few fairly non-intuitive steps to turn that god-forsaken list into something more like this:

Debra Thornton has created a video walkthough of the steps needed to do this.

You can watch it below or click here to watch it in a new simple window.

Supercharging Auto-Text

I recently found out about a trick that really enables new power in auto-text. Basically, you can insert blanks anywhere in your auto-text that you want to fill out for the patient by inserting an underscore. Then when you insert the auto-text, hitting F3 will move to the next underscore and select it for typing. Super-powerful.

You can watch a relatively short video walk-through of how it works below, or click here for a larger version of the video in a new window.