In addition to the existing merge fields found in the letter and label templates (access the templates by going to Tools>Options>Letters), any of the following 4 extra merge fields can be added to your template:
[NHSNo]
[DOB]
[Sex]
[TelNo]
Remember to enter them exactly as shown above.
July 27, 2010
Did you know that you can identify those patients with a specific month of birth who also have outstanding QOF targets?
In other words, not only can you run a month of birth search for patients on any combination of registers, but you can also REMOVE from that list any patients who do NOT need to be seen. This leaves you with a list of patients who are born in a particular month AND who have outstanding QOF targets.
This overcomes those instances where you invite patients born in a certain month who perhaps attended recently anyway and therefore have no QOF targets.
To flag up month of birth patients with outstanding QOF targets, do the following:
1) Run your month of birth ‘Register’ search as normal.
2) Run a ‘Not in Target’ search covering all those indicators you wish to identify as outstanding for your patients. For example, select the indicators in the same domains picked in step 1.
3) Export the search you created in step 2 to Excel.
4) Remove the header row in the Excel spreadsheet and save the file as a csv file somewhere on your PC. Close Excel.
5) Back in PatientChase, load the ‘Results’ view of the search you created in step 1 to display the patients on the right hand side.
6) Right click over this list of patients.
7) ‘Select Patients from Excel Export’.
Locate the file created in step 4 and click ‘Open’.
9) All those patients with oustanding targets will be highlighted in blue.
10) Right click over any of these highlighted patients and select ‘Inverse Patients Selected’. This will select all those patients who do NOT have any of the targets you selected in step 2.
11) Right click over any of these newly highlighted patients and select ‘Delete Patients from Search’.
You are now left with a list of patients who have your chosen month of birth AND who have QOF targets.
REMEMBER – You’ll need to rerun or refresh your searches each month (or however frequently you run off letters) to make sure you have the most up to date figures.
May 14, 2010
Did you know that you can cleverly highlight a set of patients within any of your existing PatientChase searches?
For example, highlight housebounds and remove them in one go?
Or highlight everyone in your search who’s had 3 letters and instantly send them a final letter?
By using the ‘Select patients from EMIS Export’ feature you can match patients within your search to any number of criteria and then delete or mail. It’s easy and quick.
As well as the examples above, there are many other reasons you may wish to refine your PatientChase search.
click here for some suggestions and to see filtering in action:
February 1, 2010