Uploading Custom HIPAA Consent Form on iPad Patient Check-in App

A number of our customer have asked how to upload HIPAA consent forms to OnPatient.

Miles from the team just did this great video on how to upload your HIPAA consent forms via the platform and to show a customer form on the iPad!

Have more questions on this? Contact our support team at support@drchrono.com.

Stick Out Your Tongue!

I am lucky enough to share a co-working space with a woman who recently graduated from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. As a result, I get to be the beneficiary of health advice that lies beyond the parameters of traditional Western approaches. Rather than the anatomic or organ systems approaches I’m accustomed to, TCM’s approach is based on “the ancient Chinese perception of humans as microcosms of the larger, surrounding universe—interconnected with nature and subject to its forces. The human body is regarded as an organic entity in which the various organs, tissues, and other parts have distinct functions but are all interdependent. Health and disease relate to balance of the functions.” Searching for an analogy when reading this translation of the Classic Chinese Medicine text Huángdì Nèijīng, I think of an interactive weather map of the body. Turns out that TCM practices also rely heavily on maps of one kind of another.

One of the diagnostic foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is tongue evaluation. This practice assesses a patient’s general energetic condition. Because the tongue is positioned somewhere between the interior and exterior of the body, it is particularly well suited to detect imbalances. Different areas of a patient’s tongue correspond to the different channels of the body. The color, texture, shape, and regions of the tongue are mapped and provide clues to diagnosis and therapeutic approach and progress. In addition, the tongue is also particularly well suited for photography in a clinical environment, provided the patient is a willing participant. A series of chronological photographs of the patient’s tongue can also provide a vivid picture of their clinical course and the effectiveness of therapies.

Most Common Topographic Representations of the Tongue in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Once a diagnosis is made, TCM practitioners may use acupuncture to treat imbalances in the body. In acupuncture, small thin needles are placed in points along meridians of the body clear blockages and release “qi,” the body’s energy. Of the over 350 points along 12 major meridians of the body can also be best represented on a map of the human body. For an acupuncturist to track the points that they use in treatment, they typically record the point in a record by number. However, a visual map of a human body be a great addition to an acupuncture record and would likely be a more efficient means of recording and annotating these procedures.

A Model of Acupunture Points in the Human Body

TCM practice, along with a litany of other Western subspecialties can leverage files with annotation. This can be a valuable tool in developing a comprehensive and information-rich medical record. This can also be a valuable tool in the education of patients. DrChrono’s FreeDraw feature provides a seamless way to integrate images and annotate. But it’s up to the practitioner to find creative and efficient ways to use it.

Have you found a way to use FreeDraw that we should know about? Let us know.

Do you know your EHR’s uptime? You should.

Depending on the EHR you go with it is important to know when your EHR is up. If you go with drchrono or some other vendor make sure that servers is up at least 99% of the time. Demand that your EHR share this information with you in some format. Click here to see drchrono’s uptime.

We at drchrono pride ourselves on uptime, giving you access to your data 24/7.

There might be a time that you can’t get to your EHR provider, the best way to check on this information is with the tools below.

If you can’t get to your cloud EHR provider, please your internets health.

1. Check your internets upload and download speeds. Healthy?
2. Internet Health Map, this website show the internet backbone’s of the world and the status of them. What is a backbone? Think of it as the main provider of internet in your region, if they go down, you might have connectivity issues.
3. Internet Health Report, a report showing the status of the world’s largest Internet Service Providers and their health.
4. Internet Traffic Report, a report showing local regions of internet and its health.
5. Use Traceroute to check how many hops it takes to get to the drchrono platform, everything seem good?
6. Use ping to check that the EHR service is even up. Try it.

One thing we recommend at drchrono is getting redundant backups of internet, one example is having an internet provider and getting Verizon or AT&T service on you iPads. Another alternative is to get internet from an internet provider and a Mi-Fi.

Mi-Fi’s are super cool, you can go anywhere and have internet on your laptops and iPads and other devices. Another option is to have two main internet providers, one through coaxial cable (e.g. comcast) and the other through your phone lines (e.g. AT&T).

Overview of drchrono

Patient Visits through EHR iPad Templates.

Create patient encounter forms for the iPad, streamline patient office encounters.

Use your forms to reduce typing and speed up patient note taking, trigger billing events … all through an iPad.

Patient Visits through EHR iPad Templates. from d r c h r o n o on Vimeo.

Create patient encounter forms for the iPad, streamline patient office encounters.

Use your forms to reduce typing and speed up patient note taking, trigger billing events … all through an iPad.

DrChrono enables physicians with a cloud EHR platform, with iPad / iPhone access.