Journal Tab

The Journal screen displays a patient's complete medical record and allows you to add new records:

The Journal screen displays the following:

  • Date - The date of the entry.

  • Description - Displays a summary of the entry, to expand the entry, select the arrow.

    Note - Repeat therapy items are prefixed with 'Repeat', for example, 'Repeat Zantac 50mg/2ml...' whereas any issues are prefixed with the issue number, for example, 'Issue 1 Zantac 50mg/2ml...'.
  • Priority - Priorities are used to signify importance of clinical entries and are numbered from 0 - 9. The use of priorities varies between practices, but generally the following conventions are used:

    • Priority 1 - Normally used for a chronic disease or significant illness.
    • Priority 3 - General medical entries.
    • Priority 0 - Sensitive items, these are hidden from view by default.

    Priority Filter - The Priority column is abbreviated with the heading P, and has a filter you can use. Select Filter , choose the priorities to display and then select Apply:

    • Filter on - Default option, displaying priorities 1 - 9.
    • Filter off - All priority items display.
  • Clinician - Displays the clinician that recorded the entry. Entries made in a Shared Care Setting display the Shared Care clinician.

Clinical data can be added from the Journal screen.

Note - To print this topic select Print in the top right corner and follow the on-screen prompts.