V11 Specialty Favorites

What are Specialty favorites

A new feature of Touchworks EHR in V11 is specialty favorites. This is a pre-loaded list of items frequently used by a specialty. The following dictionaries can have favorite items loaded for each specialty:

Editable via Phys Admin > Favorites

• Allergen HX
• Allergen Med
• Active Problems
• Family History (FHx)
• Past Medical History (PMH)
• Past Surgical History (PSH)
• Social History (PH)

• User (example: assign task to user)
• Provider (example: assign task to provider)
• Schedulable Provider (example: assign appointment to provider)
• Billing Provider (Charge > Encounter Form)
• Referring Provider (Charge > Encounter Form)
• Diagnosis (Charge > Diagnosis)
• Procedure Charge
• Visit Charge

Editable via SSMT only

• Immunizations
• Order Immunizations
• Order Med Admin
• Orderable Item Rx
• Medication HX

Orderable Items favorites via SSMT OR in the PAT Admin workspace In 11.1.5 (perhaps earlier versions) and SSMT released on 1/27/09, Orderable items favorites can be loaded via SSMT at a specialty and user level.

The benefit of having the pre-loaded specialty lists is that it dramatically decreases loading time when searching for items from the clinical desktop.

Best Practice

• Review: The best practice for loading specialty favorites with an upgrade client is to have the client review the pre-delivered specialty favorites and then decide to either load the pre-delivered specialty favorites or not load the pre-delivered specialty favorites.

• Check: If the client will be using the Order module, the OCD-OID mapping must be completed before loading the Specialty Favorites from Allscripts.

• Load: Specialty Favorites are loaded via SSMT into the test environment.

• Edit: The client then can use the PAT Physician Administration Tool to Add/Delete favorites from the delivered lists.

Quicklists

Quicklists are an even more specific list of commonly used items, like items used on a daily basis. The Quicklists can be entered manually or, as of 11.1.5, can be entered by SSMT. The column labeled 'TopFavoriteFlag' is populated by Y or N. When 'Y', this row is added to the Quicklist as well as the Favorites.

Use the Physician Admin Tool to Edit Favorites

To edit favorites in the Physician Administration tool,

• Login as TwAdmin
• Navigate to the Physician Admin Menu by using the drop-down in the top right hand corner of the screen

• Expand the “By Category” Menu

• Select Favorites

• Select the specialty that you want to edit favorites for

• select the favorites that you want to edit (in this example we will look at pediatric diagnosis)

• type in the beginning of the item you are looking for in the field next to the go button

• Click on Go. The window below the word View will populate with items that match your search

• select the diagnoses that you would like to include in your specialty favorites list, and they will populate in the right hand window.

• To remove items from Specialty Favorites highlight the item(s) and click 'Remove'

• When you have the ones that you would like, click on save.

• Saved Successfully will appear in the upper right hand corner of your screen.

Changing Specialty Deletes Personal Favorites

Personal Favorites are now tied to specialty and if you change a provider’s specialty, all of their personal favorites will disappear. In the future, if you adjust a provider’s specialty, you must also plan to extract all of their favorites via SSMT and reload them with the appropriate specialty.
A script exists to update this that can be run during the upgrade weekend once all provider specialties are set. This will ensure everyone has viewable specialties on Go-Live Monday, but going forward it will require the SSMT activities if adjusting a provider specialty.

Related Tasks:

Edit Personal Favorites - SSMT

Copy Specialty Favorites to Personal Favorites