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• Data Quality Workshop
• Data Entry for Clinicians
• Data Entry for Admin Staff
• Searches and Reports
• Practice Audits

Data Quality Workshop

With the introduction of GP2GP transfer and in preparation for sharing electronic healthcare records (EHRs), it has become increasingly important that your data is as robust as possible: poor data is worse than no data. High quality data also helps you achieve maximum QOF points.

The workshop allows delegates to participate in group discussions, explore real life scenarios and learn ways to improve the quality of data within a patient medical record using the EMIS clinical system which can then be implemented at the practice.

Throughout the day you will participate in group discussions, explore real-life scenarios and learn ways to improve data quality which can then be implemented at your own practice.

The Data Quality workshop covers the following:

• Note Summarising
• Clinical term (Read code) usage
• Standardising data entry
• Searches
• Housekeeping

Training should take no more than six hours.

Data Entry for Clinicians

It has become increasingly important that your data is as robust as possible in line with the new GMS contract and ultimately to assist in improved patient care. This session will assist GPs in entering quality data at the point of consultation saving your practice time and money.

The session will cover the following:

• Medical Records - Data Entry
  - Using Templates
  - Entering coded data
  - Synonym Entry
  - Problems
• Medical Records - Looking for Information
  - Useful tips
  - View Code Facility
  - Investigations
• Classifications
  - Benefits
  - Supplementary codes
  - Code access system
• Consultation mode
  - Accessing consultation mode
  - Recording patient contact
  - Looking at past consultations
  - Defining problems and episodes
  - Active problem management
  - Customising consultations
  - Using appropriate read codes
  - Find, edit and filtering
• Advanced features for Data Entry
  - Editing Templates
  - Creating Templates

Data Entry for Admin Staff

It has become increasingly important that your data is as robust as possible in line with the new GMS contract and ultimately to assist in improved patient care. This session will assist Administrative Staff in understanding the importance of quality data within the clinical system.

The session will cover the following:

• Medical Records - Introduction
• Medical Records - Data Entry
  - Templates
  - Entering smear results
  - Entering health promotion information
  - Entering baby immunisations
  - Code access screen
  - Problems
• Medical Records - Looking for Information
  - Useful tips for the medical record
  - View code facility
  - Investigations
• The full classification
  - Explanation of a code hierarchy
  - The benefits of using a classification
  - Supplementary codes
  - Using the code access system
• Consultation Mode
  - Looking at past consultations

Searches and Reports

This course is designed for EMIS users who are wanting to create detailed reports by showing how to identify valuable information that can help to prioritise patient care, spot trends in clinical data or even enable users to identify problems with their data.

This course is designed to provide training for practice staff responsible for extracting data from the EMIS system for example practice managers, IT managers or doctors, and covers:

Searches and Reports.

• Edit patient searches.
• Run patient searches.
• Repeat searches.
• Manage search directories.
• Understand different methods of viewing search results.
• Export search results to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.

Population Manager

• Access Population Manager and find searches.
• Understand search criteria.
• Understand child/parent populations (denominator populations).
• View search results.
• Print and save search lists.Check patients.

Practice Audits

This course is designed for EMIS users who are wanting to compile statistics about recorded information rather than the information itself.

An audit produces numbers showing the occurrence of characteristics for a pre-defined sector of the practice population. For example, an audit of referrals for your practice population shows either the number of referrals, or the number of patients that have had a referral, rather than the names of patients who have had a referral.

This course is designed to provide training for practice staff to enable them to build and edit audits.

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Create a target population.
• Build an audit using the combined features AND, OR and NOT.
• Set audits to run nightly.
• Produce a tabular printout of audit results.
• Create and print an audit report.

This course is aimed at members of staff who need to obtain audit data from the EMIS system, for example practice managers, IT managers, doctors, nurses or administration staff. Delegates should have knowledge of the EMIS LV system, including patient searches.

 

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