The Clinical Tab

General

Default Item No: This is the item number which will appear as the default to be charged when you close the clinical record from the Appointments Book. You should enter your most commonly used item number. If you do not want the charge box to appear when you close the clinical file then leave this field blank.

Use Large Clinical Window If your screen resolution is set to 1280x754 or higher in the display properties of your computer, then you can take advantage of the larger clinical window (See Clinical).

Open Clinical window to Notes Page Selecting this option instructs Genie to open to the Notes page of the clinical window rather than the Summary page, if you are not using the Large Clinical Window.

Use Small Font For Drop Down Lists This is for those who have extensive drop down menus for Current Problems and Past History, for example, so the whole menu can be seen.

Remind Me To Start Offsite Logging Selecting this option will make Genie ask if you want to start offsite logging whenever you open this database with the single-user version of Genie. See the Offsite Logging Chapter for more information.

Pathology & Radiology

Extract Path Results PIT Format Selecting this checkbox instructs Genie to attempt to extract individual results from PIT-formatted files, and insert them into a Consultation record so that they can be graphed. This only works for some pathology providers, depending on how they present the results. If you are getting nonsensical results in consultation records you should deselect this checkbox.

Move to Action List after linking Select this if you want to use the Pathology Action List for dealing with pathology and radiology results. (See Pathology Recalls).

Check for Missing Run Numbers If this is selected, Genie will check for missing pathology results whenever the Pathology & Radiology window is opened. If a run is missing Genie will warn you about it for 30 days. It is expected that you would contact the lab and request them to send the missing run again. You can switch off this warning, however this is not recommended.

Bulk Bill Pathology Selecting this will instruct Genie to automatically mark the Bulk-Bill option on printed pathology requests.

Note:The patient must have a valid Medicare Number for this to work.

Copy Results to Interested Parties Having this ticked results in Pathology & Radiology results being copied to the patients interested party when doing a request form.

Offer to store INR Results ticking this will provide a prompt to save INR results into the INR Control after they have been imported. INR Control is accessed through the Tools menu in the clinical file of the patient.

Offer to store TFT Results ticking this option will prompt you to save imported TFT results into the Thyroid Control. Thyroid Control is accessed through the Tools Menu in the clinical file of the patient.

Prescriptions

Print Medication List on Scripts Selecting this option sets the checkbox for printing the patient’s medication list whenever a prescription is printed to ON by default. (see the clinical window).

Print Certificate on Scripts As for Print Medications above but for a Medical Certificate

Use Meal Times for Scripts Selecting this option will change the way you specify dosage and frequency for prescriptions. Existing prescriptions will continue to print with the current dose and frequency, until you fill in the new dosage fields. This is not an option which you should frequently change back and forth, so you should decide on the method you wish to use and then stick with it. Also this option is doctor specific, so if you share patients with other doctors in your practice, you should ALL decide on one method or the other.

NPS RADAR Alert If you have the NPS RADAR documents installed, a summary is displayed for the first three times that a new RADAR drug is prescribed. When this checkbox is ticked, the summary information is displayed every time the new drug is prescribed until it is retired from the NPS RADAR documentation.

Access MIMS Annual via the internet This will access MIMS Annual documents via our Web Server rather than via the local machine. This will mean that the MIMS Annual will no longer need to be installed or updated on each client machine as it will be updated on our Web Server by us.

Interaction Checking If you are using MIMS for prescribing, you can set the level of drug <-> drug interaction checking here. Level 3 is usually the best compromise. If you set it to Level 0, it will warn you of just about everything, and you will become de-sensitised to the warnings.

Prompts

Do Not Show Prompts Window Having this ticked, will prevent any Prompt windows from being displayed.

Pap Smear & Mammogram Alert Selecting this option will give you a warning if a pap smear/mammogram has not been recorded whenever you open the clinical record of a female between 20 and 70 and who has not been marked as having had a hysterectomy in their Past History.

Immunisation Alert Warns you if the child has less than the expected number of Immunisations for his/her age.

Overdue Recalls Alert Warns you if there are any overdue recalls for the patient.

Warn of Recent Pathology Results If you enter a number here, Genie will give you a warning if there are any recent results within that time frame when opening the clinical record.

Other Warnings Depending on the age and sex of the patient Genie will warn if you haven’t checked a variety of the parameters stored in the Consults Parameters e.g. BP, Weight,Height, Cholesterol, PSA.