Creating Assessments

Reworking existing paper assessments into a form that can be implemented digitally is a time-consuming task, but does not have to be a boring one. Using our EHR's capacity for creating assessments, with its ability to place all kinds of fields in different placements, using questions right off the MDS in some cases, putting logical rules in place to determine what is available at any given time depending on responses to previous questions - it's actually kinda fun. Being able to trigger Careplan interventions and goals based on responses to these questions, or scoring categories puts a smile on every RN's face.

Only a few diagram-based questions are available in our EHR - full body diagram, and a pain scale composed of cartoon faces. They told us that there is no other way to implement a diagram. Well.......

I went on the Net, and found this below:




I used some basic HTML tags to use this image as the Question, and added an interactive numeric scale field to capture the response.

The EHR Vendor loved it, and wanted to know how I did it.
The Corporate DON was not amused........ <laughing>

Hey..... ya gotta keep a sense of humor, even on a multi-million dollar project. Or.... ESPECIALLY on a multi-million dollar project.


Joseph Frank, CIO
Omni Health Systems of NJ
Avery Eisenreich, CEO