Letters Tab

Clinical User Guide

Letters Tab

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The Letters tab of the Clinical Window lists correspondence created using the Letter Writer, as well as correspondence received via MDExchange or sent by your laboratory along with your patient's investigations results. This can include CDA-formatted documents.

You can also scan or import a letter you have received in hardcopy form. In fact, letters (and other such files), when added to a patient record in this way, can be saved to either of the Correspondence, Documents, Letters or Results tabs within the patient's record.

Because of the potentially-sensitive nature of the content that can be saved to this tab, it is not accessible to users with basic security access. Such users can scan/import via the Scan/Import Correspondence window. See also Document Management Scenarios.

o By default, items are displayed in order of date collected.

o Rearrange the column order by clicking and dragging a selected column, and dropping it to a new location.

o Sort the list of Results by clicking on any column heading. The sort order of a column is indicated via the direction of the icon.

o Double-clicking a record opens the record in a separate window. Previous/Next buttons on this latter window allow you to browse through the list of records.

o Multiple records can be selected simultaneously using the CTRL or SHIFT keys, as per standard Windows functionality, or by clicking the Select All link.

o Simple/Advanced filtering can be applied to this window. In the example above, the Sender/Provider column has been filtered;

See Filtering/Searching Correspondence Records for more information.

o Details of a selected Letter are displayed in the lower section of this window. Alternatively you can double-click a letter to view it in an expanded view.

o If you sort the records on this window, including the repositioning of any columns, this sort order is retained upon closing the patient's record.

Items of interest on this window: Note that the range of option available to you will be limited by the level of access you have.
Upper Section
Add	Allows you to add a new Letter.
Checked By	The name of the user who checked the result in the Holding File.
Clear Filters	Clears any filters you may have applied to this window. This option will be greyed-out if no filters have been applied.
Clear Search	Undo any keyword search you have performed.
Comment	Details of any comments recorded.
Complete	Indicates the final in a series of results.
Date Checked	The date on which the result was checked in the Holding File.
Date Collected	The date on which the sample was taken from the patient.
Date Created	The date on which the result was created by the laboratory. See also 'Date Requested'.
Date Notified	The date on which the notification for this test was made.
Date Requested	The date the practitioner requested the test be performed. See also 'Date Created'.
Delete	Click to delete selected documents.
Description	Detailed information about the result.
Document Details	Click to edit the details of a selected document.
Hide/Show Preview	Hide or show the preview pane.
Import	Click to import a file directly into the Documents tab.
Move Location	Click to move selected documents to a specific tab within the patient's record. You can select from the 'Documents', 'Letters' or 'Results' tabs in the Clinical Window, or the ECG tab of the Tool Box.
Notation	Details of any notation that has been made.
Notified By	The name of the user who recorded the notification.
Open Externally	Opens the selected document in the default third-party application, for viewing externally to Clinical. Only available to records that must be opened by a third-party application.
My Heath Record Activity Date	The date on which My Health Record activity was performed.
My Health Record Status	The current status of any My Health Record activity performed on the correspondence item.
Preview; Full, Bottom, Right	Controls the display of the preview pane, which contains selected document's details. Options are 'Full', 'Bottom', and 'Right'. The image above shows that 'Bottom' has been selected, and the details of the selected document are visible in the lower half of the window.
Print / Print To *Include Patient Header	Prints every page of every multi-page document within every selected record; Print: Prints to the Letter Writer printer. Print To: By clicking the next to the Print button, you can specify where you want to send the print job by calling the Windows print window. The 'Include Patient Header' option will print the patient's demographic data that appears at the top-left of an item, as shown in the example below. Most results include this information already, so it would normally be unnecessary for you to select this option. You can set whether this option is active or not by default via Investigations Options.
Print List / Print List To	Prints a list of selected documents. Note that the details of the selected documents are not displayed on the printout. Print: Prints to the Letter Writer printer. Print To: By clicking the next to the Print button, you can specify where you want to send the print job by calling the Windows print window.
Refresh	Click to refresh the list of documents.
Recipient/Doctor	The name of the recipient of the test.
Remove from MyHealthRecord	Click to remove the selected document to the My Health Record system. You can also right-click a selected document to access this command.
Scan	Click to scan a document directly into the Documents tab.
Search	Perform a keyword search of the list of records.
Send SMS	Send an SMS message to the patient associated with the selected record.
Send to MyHealthRecord	Click to send the selected document to the My Health Record system. You can also right-click a selected document to access this command.
Sender/Provider	The name of the laboratory that conducted the test.
Source	E.g. SDI, imported, scanned.
Subject	The name of the test ordered.
Type	Indicates the type of test (e.g. Pathology, Cytology etc)
User Name	The name of the user who imported the file. For SDI results, the name of the computer on which the file was imported.
Zoom	Select a zoom option fro the drop-down list provided. Only available to records that can be zoomed, such as photographs.

Lower Section
Action	Record/Edit an Action against a selected record.
Add Recall	Click to add a Recall for the patient. ERROR: Variable (Recall_Management) is undefined.
Assign /Reassign Patient	Click to select a different patient to assign selected records to.
Assign /Reassign Recipient	Associates the selected record with a specific recipient.
Audit History	Toggles half of the viewing area to display an audit trail of changes made to a selected document.
Notify / De-notify	Click to indicate that the patient was notified about the selected document. This may be used if you have scanned or imported an Investigation Result into the list of documents, for example.
Previous / Next	Click to scroll through the list of documents.
View Signature	Click to view the digital signature of any encrypted document you have received via MD Exchange.