I would like to be able to pull up a vaccination history very quickly. One possible way would be to create an additional drug type (Rx vs. OTC vs. vaccine) and allow the Patient History report to be limited to just vaccines. Of course, I couldn't care less "how" it is done.
I'm currently handling this by entering each vaccine as a service prefixed with "vaccine: " and then selecting all of the vaccine services in either the Cost Calculator or the FSA report, but I'd really like to have such a report without the dollar values on it.
How about setting up a Reason or Service called Vaccinations (or possibly Reason = Vaccination, and Service for each type), then getting a Patient History for that Reason and/or Service?
The downside is you might be adding a lot more items to the Services list, but you could Hide them so they wouldn't impact you on a day-to-day basis.
Vaccinations (or possibly Reason = Vaccination, and
Service for each type), then getting a Patient
History for that Reason and/or Service?
I can't use Reason because the vaccinations are always part of a larger visit. Splitting the visit between the vaccination and non-vaccination parts is more tedious than my current work around of printing the Cost Calculator report to a text file and editing out the dollar amounts.
My work-around also maintains the accuracy of what happened while leaving the possibility of later leveraging new features... like my EXTENSIVE notes in v1 allowed me to split my v1 expenses into services without having to look back through all of my paperwork. :-)
The downside is you might be adding a lot more items
to the Services list, but you could Hide them so they
wouldn't impact you on a day-to-day basis.
- Bruce
I already have a Service for each type of vaccination, but the Medical History report doesn't allow multi-selects of Services. That alone would solve my immediate problem.
However, with the frequency with which school-aged children are required to present vaccination histories, and with how late many parents are typically presented with such requirements <"Dad! Sign-up is today!"; "Then why didn't you tell me yesterday?" ;-) >, it would be nice if I could pull this report up on a moments notice... or less.
Tony, thanks for bringing this one up. It's an important one. I wish that I had had a better method of tracking vaccinations when my son was born rather than relying on the paper copy provided from the Ped. You are right that vac's are almost always going to be lumped in with some other visit such as an annual checkup. There must be a separate way to track them other than Reason for visits.
However, with the frequency with which school-aged
children are required to present vaccination
histories, and with how late many parents are
typically presented with such requirements <"Dad!
Sign-up is today!"; "Then why didn't you tell me
e yesterday?" ;-) >, it would be nice if I could pull
this report up on a moments notice... or less.
I am curious, do school systems still require a "validated" record?
I was required to sumbit vaccination records and have a physical back in school. My schools had a form that you take to your physician. The physician had to fill in the blanks, and sign the bottom.
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They are not *always* required. Of course, most of my experience is with the parochial school system. Perhaps the public school system is different.
I was required to submit vaccination records and have
a physical back in school. My schools had a form
that you take to your physician. The physician had
to fill in the blanks, and sign the bottom.
Even in the cases of these required forms, I'd like to be able to double check the doctor's record, both to verify the completeness of my own records and to verify the accuracy of theirs.
Here in Illinois, schools & camps (both private & public) do require "validated" vaccination records. Unfortunately, the forms are not consistant nor are the forms available online (at least according to the elem. school that our youngest goes to.
I know it needs to be updated for any preschool; before Kindergarten....not sure how often we have to update it for school. Camp is every year. Must be signed by physician.
I usually fill everything out & have the dr. sign it -- I typically dig out the "old" one & copy whatever was already checked off (no idea if it's accurate). Not the best way to do it.
As for my husband & me - we might as well throw a dart against a wall if anyone ever asked us about our own vaccine schedules.
Barrie
> I was required to submit vaccination records and
have
> a physical back in school. My schools had a form
> that you take to your physician. The physician
had
> to fill in the blanks, and sign the bottom.
Even in the cases of these required forms, I'd like
to be able to double check the doctor's record, both
to verify the completeness of my own records and to
I agree vaccinations are MUST to track. I don't care how it's done as long as I can print a report of them so that I can take them to schools, doctors, etc. Naturally, I would prefer that the report not include payments. But I would still like to include them in a cost report if I want to.
guess this is where this program brings up the "gray area" that I talked about ages ago....My understanding is that currently, MEM is intended to track medical EXPENSES only & not necessarily create medical HISTORIES the way we'd like (or are thinking of). In our case, i'd love to have our daughter's medical history located in the same location. We have therapist progress notes that are submitted after every 20 visits (a nano second for us); doctor letters; LOMN (letters of medical necessity) that should be kept here; etc. Some documents are related to expenses but not all.
In our case, depending on our oldest's health, we may have several conversations with her specialist in NY. She may change protocol several times (none of which result in costs/fee except perhaps Rx). It's hard to keep track from one time to another. We keep things via email or written in a folder but having everything here would be terrific. Provider notes are okay for some things but not enough. Patient histories are key...we handover stuff during hospitalizations now. No energy anymore to recite the past ten years to every intern; resident we see. Besides, our daughter is old enough now to tell us that she HATES being "show & tell". Having a rare disorder sucks - everyone wants a piece of you. She's one of 350 in the world.
My long-winded posting doesn't answer the question but probably leads to more questions/ dilemma's/meetings for the QMEM project managers. I do think that it's issues such as this that makes is so difficult for them to make everyone happy. Some users really want/need to have the program interact with traditional Quicken. I'm not in that camp. I'd rather have complete medical information -- expenses, histories, reports, etc. -- all in one location. They're inbetween a rock & a hard place & will never make us all happy. Each of us would like to be one who "wins out" though.
One other thing that we track for vaccinations are the Lot# (numbers). I want to be able to respond in case there is a recall as there was with flu shots a couple of years ago.
Barrie, I'm in the boat with you regarding your desires as to the course of MEM. I do not really NEED for it to touch Quicken at all. I'm really only using Pocket Quicken right now anyway (I would love a Pocket QMEM, come on Landware!). What I really need is a one stop shop for my medical records and expenses! That would make my life soooooo much easier. I truely believe that MEM will evenually be geared to make the lives of those with chronic illness easier by keep EOB's, LON's, history, etc - but not if we don't tell the team. ;)
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Agreed about tracking vaccinations. We don't have any kids but today I was trying to compile a vaccination history for myself and my wife's vaccinations (before now it was pretty much a "dart against the wall" for us too, to quote Barrie from above).
Perhaps if services could be grouped or tagged, whether it's custom or there were specified choices like "vaccine"/"preventive", "diagnostic"/"lab", "drug" (which is already there), "transportation", etc. Or, if there could be sub-services (like Quicken's subcategories), that might work too. Another possibility could be custom fields that can be added to each expense or service.
As far as reporting, this might be a tangent, but if there were some more options for custom reporting (again, one can look to Quicken for some examples), that could be helpful.
