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Generating hearing loss assessment reports

Tip
Populate a hearing loss assessment report from the patient's Audiology tab.
  1. On the Patient browser tab, open the patient’s file.
  2. Click the Audiology tab.
  3. On the Audiology tab, click on an assessment date within the Audiological history margin.
  4. Right-click the assessment date.
  5. Select one of the following options:
  • Hearing Assessment (2 page assessment results report)
  • Physician Report Hearing Assessment (2-page assessment results report with a cover letter to the referring physician)
  • Hearing Assessment Basic (1 page assessment results report)
  • Hearing Loss Assessment Tymp Graph (1 page assessment results report with tymp graph, comments and recommendations section)
  • Hearing Assessment Tymp AR (1 page assessment results report with tymp scores and no graph)

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  1. On the Patient browser tab, open the patient’s file.
  2. Click the Audiology tab.
  3. On the Audiology tab, click on an assessment date within the Audiological history margin.
  4. Once an date is selected, click Print
  5. Select one of the following options:
    • Hearing Assessment (2 page assessment results report)
    • Physician Report Hearing Assessment (2-page assessment results report with a cover letter to the referring physician)
    • Hearing Assessment Basic (1 page assessment results report)
    • Hearing Loss Assessment Tymp Graph (1 page assessment results report with tymp graph, comments and recommendations section)
    • Hearing Assessment Tymp AR (1 page assessment results report with tymp scores and no graph)

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NoteThe referring physician contact information populating on the Physician Report Hearing Loss Assessment pulls from the Family Physician field within the patient Details tab. See

Overview

On each audiological assessment in Blueprint OMS, it is possible to generate an audiological report which will display the information from the selected audiological assessment. Audiological report templates can be uploaded under Setup > Templates > Forms. By default, Blueprint OMS systems will have two variants of Hearing Assessment, a two-page assessment results report, and four variants of Aud Report, a one-page assessment results report. Additional generic audiological form templates are available at the template tool.

Generating audiological reports

  1. In a patient's Audiology tab, find in the History panel the audiological assessment you wish to report on.
  2. Right-click on the assessment and select the desired report option.
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  3. If the report template has merge fields related to an external healthcare provider, then you will be prompted to select a healthcare provider in the Select healthcare provider dialog box.
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    Note

    The options in this menu are the healthcare providers set in the patient's Details tab. See: Selecting the patient's family physician.

Editing audiology reports

  1. On the Patient browser tab, open the patient’s file.
  2. Click the Audiology tab.
  3. On the Audiology tab, click on an assessment date within the Audiological history margin.
  4. Right-click the assessment date.
  5. Click on a hearing assessment report
  6. To edit a report click into any cells to make any adjustments. To edit the speech scores or acoustic reflex scores you can click in the boxes and make your changes

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7. On the right had side you will see what categories are available for text snippets. To use the text snippets, double click on the category.

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5. A pop-up window will appear, with the text snippets listed on the right-hand side.

 6. Double-click or drag and drop a snippet or type the "Auto text" shortcut and hit enter on your keyboard. This will add the text snippet to the report.

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7. Click save

Tip

Create a new text snippet or edit a text snippet in the Setup Menu. See: Text Snippets for more information.

Signing reports electronically

NoteHearing Loss Assessment reports can be electronically signed using the 
Status
titlesign document
feature. To enable this feature, contact the support team after purchasing a signature pad here: Signature Pad Order Form.

  1. The report will open in a new tab, where you can sign and edit it.
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Editing audiological report instances

Editing single-line text fields

Click into any text cell to make a change.

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Note

Note: the changes will not transfer back to the hearing assessment entry in the patient's Audiology tab. Editing the data only has consequences for the document being created.

Editing multi-line text fields

On the right-hand side you will see the multiline text fields listed. Multi-line text fields are text-snippet-enabled. Double-click into the white space under the desired field's name to open a text-snippet-enabled editing window for that field.

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In this window, you can compose the text for the chosen field. You can use your system's text snippets and create new ones. Spell check is also enabled here. Once you are finished with your composition, click 

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titleSave
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Signing reports electronically

Report templates configured with eSignature fields can be signed electronically. Standard Blueprint OMS audiological report templates all have eSignature fields.

Signing reports using clinic tablets

See: Setting up and using tablets.

Signing reports using signature pads

  1. Click
    Status
    titlesign document
    .
  2. From the

    The Sign document dialog box

    , check the Audiologist Signature box, and click Sign.
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  3. When the audiologist has finished signing the signature pad, click Done
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  4. From the Sign document dialog box, check the Patient Signature box, and click Sign.
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  5. When the patient has finished signing the signature pad, click Done.
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  6. When the signature fields have been signed, click Done.
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    Note
    The signatures appear electronically on the form. Archive the document on the patient's file. See: Audiology reports.
Archiving reports as PDFs
  1. will appear and display the name of the field whose signature is being collected. According to this information, either use the signature pad to sign or have the patient use the signature pad to sign.
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  2. Once the signature is entered, click 
    Status
    titleDone
    .
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  3. If there are any other eSignature fields on the form, the Sign document will prompt for those signatures as well. Continue signing and clicking 
    Status
    titleDone
     until there are no eSignature fields left to sign.
  4. Any signatures entered will appear on the form in the approproiate places.
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Archiving an audiological report or audiological report draft
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Archiving reports
Archiving reports

There are multiple ways to extract the report out of Blueprint. Choose from one of the following options:

  1. Click the button to Archive the report under the patient Documents tab.
    • Within the Add document: Physician Report Hearing Loss Assessment dialog box, input a Title, select a Category, and optionally add an additional Description and Status.
      Click Save.

    • Click

    the
    • Save

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  2. Click the Print Image Removed icon in the top left-hand corner to print the report.
  3. Click the Image Removedbutton to download the report as a pdf to your computer.

Saving reports as editable forms

Documents in Blueprint can be archived for editing at a later time. To do this:

  1. Click the 
    Status
    titlesave editable form
    button to save the report for editing at a later time under the patient Documents tab.
    • Within the Add document: Physician Report Hearing Loss Assessment dialog box, input a Title, select a Category, and optionally add an additional Description and Status.

    • Click Save.

  2. Click Ok on the Document successfully archived prompt.
Tip
Edit the report at a later time by clicking on the patient's Documents tab, right-clicking the document, and selecting Edit document. See Document management for more information.

Emailing an

audiology

audiological report

The Hearing Loss Assessment or the Physician Report Hearing Loss Assessment can be emailed directly from Blueprint.

  1. Open the Hearing Loss Assessment or the Physician Report Hearing Loss Assessment
  2. Once in the report, click Email/fax
  3. Choose Email patient, Email physician, or Email other
  4. After selecting one of the above, it will ask whether future editing will be allowed
  5. Within the Add document: Physician Report Hearing Loss Assessment dialog box, input a Title, select a Category, and optionally add an additional Description and Status.
  6. A box will pop up verifying that the document has been archived
  7. If you have selected Email other, then select the e-mail recipient from the list or choose the Manual entry option and click Next
  8. The Enter message details screen will then appear.  The subject can be changed and, optionally, an additional message can be entered
  9. Click Send

Faxing an audiology report

  1. Open the Hearing Loss Assessment or the Physician Report Hearing Loss Assessment
  2. Once in the report, click Email/fax
  3. Choose Fax physician, Fax Insurer, or Fax other
  4. After selecting one of the above, it will ask whether future editing will be allowed
  5. Within the Add document: Physician Report Hearing Loss Assessment dialog box, input a Title, select a Category, and optionally add an additional Description and Status
  6. A box will pop up verifying that the document has been archived
  7. If you have selected Fax other, then select the e-mail recipient from the list or choose the Manual entry option and click Next
  8. The Enter message details screen will then appear.  The subject can be changed and, optionally, an additional message can be entered.  Then click Next
  9. The Select correspondence details box will pop  up and allow you to choose a fax cover page or the option to send the fax without a cover page
  10. Click
  11. The Physician Report Hearing Assessment will then show with the option to
    1. Optionally, click the Save icon in the top left-hand corner to save the report to your computer.
    2. Optionally, click the Print icon in the top left-hand corner to print the report.



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