Adding Timer Readings in Template Struture
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Arlene Johnston
I would heavily vote for making the ability to pull the timer reading into the note again. That was very helpful! and I feel it an important feature to have in Heidi.
Created by Daniel Medecielo
Tom
Hiya Arlene Johnston, thanks for sharing with us! Following up on this:
- Can you describe how you previously used the timer reading feature in your workflow?
- What specific benefits did the timer reading feature provide to you or your team?
- Are there any particular scenarios or use cases where the timer reading feature is especially important?
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Arlene Johnston
HI Tom, I have used the timer reading over the past year or more and have really come to rely on it to help me know quickly what E/M code I qualify to bill based on time spent with the patient. Heidi is not integrated with our EHR so to be most efficient, when I walk into a patient's room I turn on Heidi on my browser on my laptop that I carry from room to room and when I am done with the visit I wait for the note to populate- will sometimes add Dx codes while waiting or send Rxs and then immediately cut and past the result into the note section in my EHR and then open up the next patient session as I walk to the next room. I then come back to my EHR note in free moments, at lunch or when done with patients and add the E/M code and Dx codes and then my note can be signed. I have inserted a command in my template to insert the time from the reader in my note- like this- Spent (insert minutes displayed on Heidi visit timer) minutes in direct contact with the patient. It has been wonderful and I love it and have come to count on it. This helps in documenting based on time so I know based on time what I can bill. We practice functional medicine and so spend more time with our patients than most family practice offices as more time is needed to understand and address the root causes of patients' health concerns. So time can often be a factor for billing and I like it documented in the chart note. If Heidi automatically adds it I don't have to go back to each visit and see if time would be helpful to have in my documentation. If time is not supportive of my documentation, I can quickly delete it-and it requires much less time than going back into Heidi and finding that patient's session and figuring out the time spent with the patient. It is one of those things that is super helpful to me and my workflow. I also look at the timer while in a patients room to keep track of how long I have been in patient's room when I might otherwise "lose track of time".- that obviously is still working, but having the timer reading added to my note is very valuable to me. Hope that helps.