The Main Page

The Main (or Summary plus Notes) page displays the patient’s Current Problems, Past History, Current Medication List, Allergies, Smoking and Alcohol history, Pap smear details and flag information.

If the patient has unlinked results (i.e. in Open > Pathology & Radiology) a flashing red arrow in the top right corner of the window will alert you to this fact. You can then view and link these results via the Unlinked Result/s button. The Next Appt button will show all future appointments for the patient. Alt clicking on this button will show all appointments, past and future, for the patient.

Pap Smears

The Last Pap field will be filled in automatically if you download electronic results. Alternatively it can be filled in manually to stop warnings for overdue smears appearing and to mark correctly the patient on the Overdue Smears list in the Patients Menu. If the patient is not a regular of the practice or no longer is required to be recalled for smears eg. hysterectomy, you can tick the Don't Recall for smears tickbox which will prevent them from appearing on the Overdue Smears recall list.

Flagging

Ticking the Flagged tickbox will prompt you for a reason and the number of days the patient needs to be seen by.

When a User enters a flagged patient's file they will be notified that it is flagged and provided with the flag reason. After the flagged date has passed, the user to which the flag is assigned will be notified when logging into Genie. Flagged patients can be viewed at any time through Patients > Flagged Patients in the Patient List.

In the right upper corner of the Main (or Notes) page is a list of "Contacts" for this patient. This Contacts list contains previous consultation records, Attachments, Correspondence out and in, Procedures, Pathology & Radiology, Documents, Workcover, Health Assessments, Care Plans, Antenatal Visits.

Above this Contacts List, the icons are:

Show Last 10 Consults tickbox will display the last 10 consultations in the display area.

Interested Parties, populated by CCing a letter to someone in the Addressbook.

The Garbage Can deletes the highlighted entry in the All Contacts List.

The graph icons graph results in PIT and HL7 format respectively. In order to graph PIT results, you must have 'Extract Path Results PIT Format' ticked in User Preferences. To graph HL7 results, see Track Individual Pathology Results, in Maintenance & Reports.

Below the contact list is a display area. Clicking on any records in the Contact List will display that record's contents in the display area. Although you can cut and paste, and even type in the display area, nothing you do here is saved in the actual record.

Between the contact list and the display area and above prescriptions is a splitter

Dragging the splitter up or down will adjust the relative sizes of the contact list, display or prescription area.

When using the smaller clinical window (i.e. screen width <1280) the splitter in the Notes page remembers its position.

Adding Current Problems/Past History

A Current Problem or Past History item can be added by clicking on the respective menu and selecting either:

a). 'Add to Menu' which will be used for common problems that are likely to be used for other patients, or

b). 'New' which adds the problem only to that patient.

The small Blue Plus next to Current Problems also allows you to add a New problem to the current patient.

To delete Current Problems/Past History items from the patients record, double click on the problem and use the Delete button.

To delete problems from the list of Current Problems/Past History, select the relevant drop-down menu, hold down the ALT key and highlight the item to delete. Let go of your mouse, let go of the ALT key.