When visiting or collecting data from your patients, have you ever thought "I would really like to get ‘this’ information but it's nowhere on the form?" Or, "I wish I could create my own patient questionnaire to fit our needs." Now you can!

With CPR+ Custom Assessments, you can create totally unique assessment tools or questionnaires to collect any type of information you’d like in the form that you’d like it.

Creating a Custom Assessment

To create a Custom Assessment, go to the Databases menu, select Templates and then select Assessments. To add a new question on the fly, click the box with a plus sign in the Available column and follow the prompts. You can create the specific questions / data points you want as well as capture the responses in the format that you want. Each response can be formatted in Yes/No, Essay, Short/Single Word, Multiple Choice or Date/Time formats.

You can also create “Categories” (or groupings within the Assessment) so that questions are displayed and printed in a logical order. In each category, you can create an unlimited number of questions or data points and these will be displayed in the Available column. To select a question for your Assessment, highlight it in the Available column and click the right arrow to move it to the Selected column. If you change your mind, highlight it and click the left arrow to de-select it. You can also change the order of questions in the Selected column with the Up / Down arrows.

The bottom of the Assessment Template includes four signature lines which allow you to decide how many and whose signatures need to be captured and label them as needed.

Disease State Management

So now you see that you can create an unlimited number of custom assessments. In addition, did you know that you can also link a specific assessment to a drug, so that when you get an order for that drug, CPR+ will pull in the appropriate assessment? For example, say you treat a lot of IVIG patients and you want to collect and track specific information on every patient on admission and then every other month. With the CPR+ Disease State Management feature, you can create an IVIG Custom Assessment and link it to all of your IVIG drug items. When you create an order for IVIG, CPR+ will auto-generate the assigned Assessment and create a schedule entry for its initial completion and every other month follow-up. To link a Custom Assessment to a drug, click on the Assessment drop-down under the Disease State Management box on the Clinical Info tab of the Inventory Item.

Be sure to populate the fields for Initial Contact, F/U Frequency, Responsible Department and Assigned to on the Assessment. CPR+ uses these fields to auto-generate the schedule entries for each employee / department responsible for conducting the assessment based on the drug order.

Using Custom Assessments with CPR+ Mobile

All custom assessments created in CPR+ can also be used with CPR+ Mobile, our laptop-based point of care application that allows you to take CPR+ into the field. With CPR+ Mobile, you can perform all sorts of clinical documentation in the field, including updating demographic data, Medication Profiles, POT’s, Care Plans, Progress Notes and Standard or Custom Assessments. All data captured in the field can be quickly synchronized with your main CPR+ system from a secure VPN over the Internet, keeping clinicians in the office up-to-speed and eliminating the need for clinicians to make frequent trips to the office to “drop off paperwork.”

For more information on creating or using Custom Assessments and/or understanding the benefits of CPR+ Mobile, contact the CPR+ Support Trainer today at 877-277-4876.

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New Report Library Service Reports

By Ann Porter

Did you know that there are now over 525 unique Crystal and FoxFire! reports in the CPR+ Report Library Service? Yeah - over 525 and I've reviewed them all.

Every week, hundreds of Report Library Service subscribers upload new reports to the Report Library Service. It can be a bit overwhelming--for me and for you. Part of my job as the Report Library Service Manager is to evaluate each new report before publishing it to the library and making it available for download. Obviously, I make sure that it works. I also make sure that we don't already have a similar report in the library and I write the short description and create the .pdf preview. The other part of my job is writing or helping customers write custom reports. Most of these reports also get added to the Report Library.

A few of the recently added reports include:

1) Report FF0399: Patient Census by Therapy Type by Date Range. This report lists all patients who have received a delivery within a user defined date range, grouped by therapy type.

2) Report FF0421: Last Prescription Filled by Physician. Find out if a physician referral source has stopped sending you business by reporting on how long it has been since the LAST Rx was filled that was prescribed by each Physician.

3) Report FF0410: Invoices Billed by Biller. Look at biller productivity with this report which lists all invoices created by a specific biller within a user defined date range.

4) Report FF0423: Open Invoices with no activity in 90 days. Want to reduce DSO? Use this report to find out which claims have had no follow up in the past 90 days.

5) Report FF0389 : Duplicate Drug Inventory Items Report. Use this report to clean up your inventory! It lists NDC#'s that occur more than once in your inventory table.

Literally dozens of new reports get added to the Library every month and you can view them all right now, whether you are an RLS subscriber or not. For more information on this service, feel free to contact me directly via email at ann@cprplus.com.

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