PCS Hints and Tips

On this page, you will find the hints and tips for using EMIS PCS. Click on a category in this list to go to hints and tips about that subject:

General

Access your practice website

To make your practice website available to you from within PCS, click File on the menu bar and then select Edit Home Page Location. Type the URL of your website home page in the Address field.

Organiser

You can make the Organiser your EMIS home page. Click File and Edit home page location then select the organiser radio button at the bottom of the window. Click OK. Organiser will be your home page next time you log in.

Appointments

Set default durations

To edit the default duration of a particular appointment reason, click Appointment Configuration, then click Appointment Reasons. Now, select the required appointnment reason and click Edit.

Display a message on the Appointment screen

You can display a message which will appear in red on the right of the green bar. For example, you might want a reminder of who is duty doctor.

  • Go into Date Settings.
  • Enter your message in the Description field.

Print a single session holder's appointments

  • Create and apply a filter to show a single session holder's appointments.
  • Select Print View from the Appointment Book.
  • Set the required date.
  • Print or view.

Move a patient

To move a patient from one appointment to another on the same date, press and hold the SHIFT key and drag the patient from the existing appointment to the new one.

Consultation Mode

Numbered Tabs within Consultation Mode

Hold down the Ctrl key on the keyboard when in CM and this will put a number on each of the four tabs on the right hand side. You can then use the associated numbers on the keyboard to move between tabs.

Create a preset consultation

To record a consultation and then save as a preset, click Presets or press K.
Hint: When manually consolidating duplicate records, save any consultations as presets and run them against the patient you wish to keep before archiving the duplicate.

Quick pick list

To create a quick picking list of location types, click the down arrow on the green bar in Consultations and select Configure.

Medical Record

Problem Management

To associate attachments, values, referrals etc with an individual problem, click Problems or press P from Medical Record - Problem Management, select a problem, click Organise or press P, and then select Event Link editor. You can then add and delete links to thje selected problem.

View/Find in Medical Record

This is a good way to find data attached to Read codes.
From within Medical Records, select the view/find option and then select 9 - the free text option.
For example, entering "ast" will find any word entered with 'ast' at the beginning, the end or in the middle.

Searching medical records

To search for individual codes or free text in a medical record, click View/Find or press W, and then select 9 - Find Code/Term/Text.

Template configuration

To configure a deparate preferred list of templates for each screen within Medical Record, ensure that you select the relevant module in the template configuration - click Templates or press T, then select Configuration.

QOF

QOF Alerts

To view your QOF Alerts at any time for the selected patient, press Ctrl + F5. Press Enter to clear this information from your screen.

Patient Précis

Configuring the patient précis

When configuring the patient précis, press CTRL + ENTER to insert a line break.

Registration

Duplicate addresses

Map duplicate addresses to ensure that the Household key works accurately.

Amendments

If you have a large number of amendments in your GP Links inbox, all of which require you to remove 'County' from patient address, you can delete the town and county automatch in Registrations so it stops happening.

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