1. VeHU 263H: CPRS Tips & Tricks for Inpatients “Getting the Inside Track”
Presented by
Prashant V. Phatak, MD (VA Loma Linda HCS) Yvonne Pierson (Clinical Product Support)

2. Course Objectives Review keyboard and navigation shortcuts
Speed up routine tasks in CPRS and save time.
Review and configure personal settings for optimal use
Review CPRS features unknown to many users

3. My CPRS Background Medical Student at VA Los Angeles
Internship and Residency at VA Loma Linda
Hospitalist (non-teaching) physician x 1 yr
Staff General Medicine (2 months of year wards) currently.
Experience with CPRS and VistA ~ 10 yrs

4. Outline of Presentation
Navigation and Sign-on
Options and Preferences
Labs Tab
Reports Tab
Orders Tab
Meds Tab
Notes & Templates
Consults and Problems Tab

5. Questions
Please write any questions you may have on a 3” x 5” card and hand to the Room Guide(s)
I’ll review the questions at the end of the presentation.

6. Sign-on to CPRS
Find your student number ## by your computer Click this Icon:
Access Code: ##VEHU
Verify Code: VEHU##
Your patient is <your number spelled out>,patient
Your Signature Code is VEHU##

7. Part 1: Navigation / Sign-on
Sign-on tips
View alerts window
Patient selection
Keyboard shortcuts

8. Forwarding / Renewing

9. Part 2: Options & Preferences
Creating a personal team list
Patient Selection – customizing
Default date ranges
Default Note Titles & Co-signer
Surrogate Settings & Notifications

10. Lab Status Worksheet “Panels” Graphing
Part 3: Labs Tab
Lab Status
Worksheet “Panels”
Graphing

11. Lipids – Worksheet View

12. Lipids – Graphical View

13. Clinical Reports Section BCMA logs
Part 4: Reports Tab
Clinical Reports Section
BCMA logs

14. Part 5: Orders Tab Custom Views Auto-DC / Release Event
Alert when results
Creating personal quick orders

15. Part 6: Meds Tab Transfer to Inpatient / Outpatient
Double-click to review BCMA
Personal Quick Orders

16. Part 7 and 8: Notes & Templates
Changing Views – Custom View
Highlighting certain note titles
Searching for keywords
Spell Check and Grammar

17. Part 9 and 10: Consults / Problems
Consults – comments / resubmit
Problems – Problem Categories

18. Questions? – 3x5 cards Thanks for attending!
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