One Way of Reducing the Number of Mouse Clicks During a Consultation
GPASS Tips
Oct 5, 2006, 12:45

Each user of GPASS can customise the view of their encounter screen. This means that:-

1. You can choose which 'Tab' is active when you open a record (ie 'Previous Encounter', 'Encounter', 'History' or 'Care Management')
2. Within the chosen Tab, you can choose which sub tab is active on opening. Here, you have a choice of 'Acute Prescriptions', 'Repeat Prescriptions' or Current Precriptions'. You can also choose between 'Clinical', Referrals', Screening' and 'Care Management'

If you would like a quick route to contract data entry via SPICE, you could set up your encounter default to be 'Encounter' with the sub tab 'Care Management' selcted. This means you would get entry to SPICE screens in 2 clicks for each patient.

To do this, follow these instructions:-

1. Open an encounter screen
2. Select View from the menu
3. Select Customise Main Tab and then select Encounter

This defines Today's encounter as your main opening tab. In order to define sub tabs, do the following:-

1. Click on the Encounter tab as if you were entering data in the record.
2. Click on the prescibing tab that you want to be active.
3. Click on the 'Care Management' tab

The screen that you have displayed will be the selected default.

Save this by selecting View on the main menu again and then clicking 'Save as Default'