Chapter 17 - Managing Patient Populations: Reporting Workbench

Question 1

Dr. Mica is attempting to run a report and has been waiting for four minutes. Explain one reason why that might be happening.

Answer 1

The lookback period might be very long, so it has to evaluate a lot of patients.

Question 2

True or False: After you run a report, you can’t run it again until one week from today.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

When viewing report results, what is one action you can take for a group of selected patients?

Answer 3

One possible answer: Send them a MyChart message.

Question 4

Dr. Graphite ran a report of “my diabetic patients” and the report results list 100 patients. Dr. Graphite wants to send a letter only to those who don’t use MyChart. What can Dr. Graphite do to narrow this population based who uses/does not use MyChart?

Answer 4

Apply filtering

Question 5

An administrator locates a report that is similar to the one that he has been asked to create. He opens that report, does some editing, and clicks Save. What is the impact of doing that?

Answer 5

The administrator did not create a new report. He just edited the existing report!