Save a Template When Charting

Version 14.19

Overview

While Visit Templates are typically created prior to documenting a Visit, they can also be created on-the-fly while documenting a Visit. This functionality is helpful because it builds your Template library, and saves time when you are charting another Visit the same way. Templates created during the charting of a Visit may be edited later by navigating to the Encounter or Well Visit Template Editor, but are Author-protected. This means that the user who created the Template is the only user who can make edits. All Providers, however, can use the Template.

Save As Template: Encounter

  1. From within the Encounter but before finalizing, click Summary if you are not already there.
  2. After reviewing the Note content, click on the Save as Template button located toward the bottom of the window.
  3. Complete the information in the Save Template Dialog window:

  • Template Name: Enter the Template name.
  • System Category: Select the System Category for the template from the drop-down menu.
  • Sections to include: Select or deselect the sections of the Encounter Note to include in the template. By default, all boxes will be checked. To exclude a section, click on the checkbox to clear it. 
  • Keep custom questions: Select to include or deselect to exclude the Custom Questions.
  • Copy as "pertinent": Select this checkbox to save and revert all to "Pert". To preserve your selections, deselect the checkbox.  
  1. Click OK to save the template.

Save As Template: Well Visit

  1. From within the Well Visit but before finalizing, click Summary if you are not already there.
  2. After reviewing the Note content, click on the Save as Template button located toward the bottom of the window.
  3. In the dialog window, enter a unique name for the new template, and click OK.

  1. Click OK in the Information window.