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Post by mdeyedoc on Oct 5, 2014 9:42:13 GMT -6
I am desperately trying to finish this template redesign and I'm hung up on printing med rec tabs. For those that are printing out your med rec pdfs, are they microscopic? I always thought mine was tiny because I use 9 pt on my template.
I'm trying to add a Tab that contains all my med rec fields in a nice layout for printing records. This morning I compared the font size of text printed from the med rec tabs to various sizes of text printed from a Word doc The header that Crystals adds with pt name, dob, electronic sig prints out at the equivalent of 10 pt Arial. Crystal default label (8pt Arial Bold) prints slightly larger than 5pt. The default text (12 pt Arial) is printing just under 8 pt Arial. Is that what you guys are using??? 14 pt text prints as just under 10 pt. Is there some setting I'm missing that makes them print larger?
Printing the med recs automatically in Crystal is NOT an option for me. The right side gets cut off, the buttons (which frequently serve double duty as labels on my template) don't print, the formatting is awful, lots of duplication of fields (I have many fields on multiple tabs so I have the data when and where I need it), the text is tiny and it's 16 pages! I created a Word doc that I use for printing records but it doesn't have every possible field and it takes several steps to create it. I thought this would be a better option if I could get it working. If it worked well, I was also hoping that Crystal could eventually create a system for printing med recs parallel to the med rec tabs, where we could have say a separate tab for CL fields, I&Rs, and those tabs would only be printed if there was data in those fields or if there was some way to place fields on panels that were skipped if the fields on that panel were empty. That would help to cut out a bunch of empty data fields.
Marcia
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Post by KizerOpt on Oct 6, 2014 7:27:48 GMT -6
Yes, the print is tiny, yes, it prints too many pages. I have not considered that there might be a way to enlarge the type (figured it's just a Crystal thing). I usually either just print the page or print pdf without blanks if I have to have that form. Time hasn't allowed me the opportunity to figure out an alternative method. Good luck, I'm interested in seeing what you come up with.
Karen
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Post by mdeyedoc on Oct 6, 2014 10:41:28 GMT -6
Yes, the print is tiny. Karen This is the printout from my test tab with notes on size settings used. Does yours print this small? Marcia |
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Post by KizerOpt on Oct 6, 2014 12:19:48 GMT -6
Yours actually looks larger side by side. I would send an attachment of mine, but apparently I'm not allowed....  Karen |
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Post by mdeyedoc on Oct 6, 2014 12:28:47 GMT -6
Yours actually looks larger side by side. I would send an attachment of mine, but apparently I'm not allowed.... Karen Were you looking at the default Crystal size? I should put more text in there but it's the Prnt/Guard Cross Eye and Four Eye one. That's the size that people are uploading/giving their patients and sending for records requests??? Marcia |
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Post by KizerOpt on Oct 6, 2014 12:55:57 GMT -6
That's from EHR Settings > Print to PDF (remove blanks). The file > print page is maybe worse, mine squeezes the exam and pretest onto 2 pages, so it's about 8 or 9 pt print.
Karen
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Post by mdeyedoc on Oct 6, 2014 21:37:36 GMT -6
That's from EHR Settings > Print to PDF (remove blanks). The file > print page is maybe worse, mine squeezes the exam and pretest onto 2 pages, so it's about 8 or 9 pt print. Karen Ahhh...that's part of the problem. The printout is totally different between File>Print page and EHR Settings>Print to PDF. They even have a different font. The print from EHR Settings appears to be all the same font size and a serif font like Times New Roman, whereas the File>Print page does have different size and in Arial, which is what the med rec template uses. The page size is greater than 8.5x11 (but it still cuts off the right side) so you have to "shrink to fit page" to print out whatever does show up in the pdf. So I tried to print out just the fields page, which is not very wide. The page size on that pdf was was 8.5 x 11 without shrinking but the print was still really tiny. I obviously have no idea how these things are working. How do you stand printing without blanks? It looks crazy because labels still print even if the fields below/next to them do not print because they are blank. Marcia |
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Post by KizerOpt on Oct 7, 2014 9:55:55 GMT -6
I try not to look, lol. Honestly, I use the print page mostly when I have to, like I said, I haven't had the time to make up anything better. It's a shame that we have to make up our own to get something you would be proud to hand to a patient.
Karen
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Post by mdeyedoc on Oct 7, 2014 11:52:49 GMT -6
I try not to look, lol. Honestly, I use the print page mostly when I have to, like I said, I haven't had the time to make up anything better. It's a shame that we have to make up our own to get something you would be proud to hand to a patient. Karen I thought maybe it was because some of my tabs were wide and it shrank them all but I deleted all my tabs except one and only had a narrow section of data on that and print page still comes out microscopic. Marcia |
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Post by alexis on Dec 30, 2014 12:37:20 GMT -6
Are you guys using the Crystal Merge Word Documents? It makes is look more pleasing to the eye and makes it easier to read and understand.
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Post by KizerOpt on Dec 30, 2014 15:14:04 GMT -6
Are you guys using the Crystal Merge Word Documents? It makes is look more pleasing to the eye and makes it easier to read and understand. Is there a merge for printing the medical records? This is not a report under Reports, this is directly from the medical record. I don't see any options on the page for merging to a Word doc. Let us know how you are printing the medical records, step by step, we would love something that looks good and contains all necessary information for meaningful use.
Karen
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Post by alexis on Dec 30, 2014 16:28:54 GMT -6
Are you guys using the Crystal Merge Word Documents? It makes is look more pleasing to the eye and makes it easier to read and understand. Is there a merge for printing the medical records? This is not a report under Reports, this is directly from the medical record. I don't see any options on the page for merging to a Word doc. Let us know how you are printing the medical records, step by step, we would love something that looks good and contains all necessary information for meaningful use.
Karen
I have added an attachment for you. Save it onto your computer. then when in the patients record make sure you are in the DOS that you are wanting to print out. go to EHR settings > Button Commands > Send to MS Word. Chose the document I just attached and it will upload the record into it! make sure before you do this you change my company name and address to your own!
Let me know if this helps! Exam Record Word template.docx (34.49 KB)CL Pt Exam Record Word template.docx (38.81 KB)
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Post by mdeyedoc on Dec 31, 2014 11:24:05 GMT -6
I have added an attachment for you. Save it onto your computer. then when in the patients record make sure you are in the DOS that you are wanting to print out. go to EHR settings > Button Commands > Send to MS Word. Chose the document I just attached and it will upload the record into it! make sure before you do this you change my company name and address to your own!
Let me know if this helps!
LOL...I just downloaded your attachment to make sure this wasn't some new function and those are MY Word templates! You must be using my med rec template. A Word template is unique to the med rec template it was based on so it will ONLY work for someone using the same med rec template (unless they want to manually edit all the Word merge fields to match the equivalent fields in the med rec templates). It also doesn't have ALL the med rec fields. I just included the standard fields used in most exams. There is a separate templates for the I&R fields. This is what I currently use for my med recs but it is a laborious process that must be done manually for each exam and is not tied to the auto portal uploads. There's no way I would do that for every patient so I didn't go for MU2 this year. I just had a full records release for a CL patient with multiple exams and CL fit with 2 CL visits. It took forever to get everything together and we've only been using EHR 2 years! I can't imagine what it would be like with several years of records on a glaucoma patient. Every IOP check would have a 3 page record. Marcia |
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Post by KizerOpt on Jan 5, 2015 13:07:34 GMT -6
I have added an attachment for you. Save it onto your computer. then when in the patients record make sure you are in the DOS that you are wanting to print out. go to EHR settings > Button Commands > Send to MS Word. Chose the document I just attached and it will upload the record into it! make sure before you do this you change my company name and address to your own!
Let me know if this helps!
LOL...I just downloaded your attachment to make sure this wasn't some new function and those are MY Word templates! You must be using my med rec template. A Word template is unique to the med rec template it was based on so it will ONLY work for someone using the same med rec template (unless they want to manually edit all the Word merge fields to match the equivalent fields in the med rec templates). It also doesn't have ALL the med rec fields. I just included the standard fields used in most exams. There is a separate templates for the I&R fields. This is what I currently use for my med recs but it is a laborious process that must be done manually for each exam and is not tied to the auto portal uploads. There's no way I would do that for every patient so I didn't go for MU2 this year. I just had a full records release for a CL patient with multiple exams and CL fit with 2 CL visits. It took forever to get everything together and we've only been using EHR 2 years! I can't imagine what it would be like with several years of records on a glaucoma patient. Every IOP check would have a 3 page record. Marcia Sure glad to read your post, Marcia. Now I know I'm still going to be doing the same thing for now... at least until I have time enough to come up with my own Word template.
Karen
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