MyFindings Finding Designer
The MyFindings Designer is used for defining the MyFindings™ objective window in MyEMR Personal Injury Edition for the Pocket PC. This allows you to define primary anatomical regions (such as extremities, muscle or ligament groups, or individual grouping of primary regions).
To add a region to the Region Catalog, click "New" above the Region Catalog and provide a description that will appear in the list. (The mnemonic is automatically generated and used only by the computer's database.) Optionally add synonyms and/or modify the sentence templates which are unique to each region.
To add a finding to the Finding Catalog, click "New" above the Finding Catalog and provide a description that will appear in the list. (The mnemonic is automatically generated and used only by the computer's database.)
Now you must assign a grammar classification, for example you want it to be an anatomical sub-region. In such an example, if the primary region you are observing is the ankle, then anatomical sub-regions might be the great toe, second toe, little toe, or any ligaments or muscles between.
Click OK to save the information. You can sort it in the list as you like, however, the grammar types are grouped in the list.
For the findings, the current design prefers and implements using the exact words you choose here, so that the synonyms are not necessary.
Once you've added a new anatomical sub-region, you can now associate it with the primary anatomy regions in the upper-right region catalog by using the < > arrows in the middle column between the windows. All findings from the finding catalog can be associated with one or more primary regions in the region catalog. This association is displayed in the lower right box that explains findings applied to a selected region.
The verbiage text engine will assemble the grammar in this order, performing a numerical count for things that are multiples. It will allow only one status, one severity, one frequency, multiple findings, one conjunctive phrase (i.e., migrating to) and multiple sub-anatomical regions.
Status
Severity
Frequency
Finding(s)
Conjunctive phrase
Sub-anatomical regions
You can add an unlimited number of finding sets to a region. If you have something severe but something mild, use two finding sets to describe it.
