SCIMP 2013
Dr Duncan Lamont

Learn to touch type
Keyboards shortcuts
Dual monitors

Use the function keys - stick a key guide on your keyboard
Escape to switch between screens
Learn the doubles
F8 F8 to close and save a consultation
Q Q to change quantity/directions on medication

Finding the needle in the haystack
Load and use a formulary
Prefilled directions and quantities
Improved formulary and guideline compliance

Incremental searching - ideal for stockings/catheters
Grad - bel - med - san - 2
Graduated compression stocking below knee medium sand class 2
The power of the space
Use a space as the first character to search anywhere in the drug name
Ideal when the manufacturer isn ’t known

Prescribing demonstration

and the wonderful things you can do with them
Autotext replacement
Contract codes
Trigger templates
Trigger alerts

Synonyms demonstration
–Johnny Appleseed

Join search terms with / eg hip/pain
Use synonyms for difficult codes
Bail out with F4

Coding demonstration

An autohotkeys macro
Adds functions to EMIS and labeltrace
Used across Forth Valley
GPs now rely on its functions

Quick access to clinical refererence
EMIS drug browser
Web mentor
Easy to customise for your own Web help page

Launch direct from consultation
Enables arrow key selection of labels
Keypad selects number of labels

Ctrl F6 the best way to search
Search on whole or part of word
Fast
Ctrl F7 one key medication review - from any page
Ctrl F8 Find the next appointment a patient has

Supplements existing functionality
Proper installment dispensing
Click to select interval for dispensing
Optional start and end dates
Free text as well

Pharmacy text
Installments, issue dates and free text
Updates instantly
Only on printed prescription
Installment text
Installments only
Updates after screen change
On ePharmacy message and printed prescription

Issue and print from past prescribing
"...got 110 specials this am in about 40 mins usually would have taken over an hour - brilliant"

Y ..... Ctrl-j ...... Ctrl F9
Issue and print from past prescribing, convert acute to repeat and review prescription

www.dlamont.co.uk/ehealth/extremis
(It's free)