Creating a Letter Group
Overview: How to create and send a letter to the patient portal. |
Audience: All staff |
Review: Letters are created in an order group. This will allow attachments from the chart to be sent to the patient’s portal. This feature also functions to generate letters in the chart if not already there and submit to the patient portal. All letter groups can be printed or downloaded for email after selecting “Save”.
1. In the patients quickview select from the patient’s task bar “Clinicals” > “Chart”
2. To the top right corner of the chart select the menu icon.
3. From the menu select “Create Order Group”.
5. At the bottom of the ordger group select “Letters +”
a. If your submitting an item that’s already in the chart select “Attached documents”
b. If your submitting a letter from the prefilled options listed select the letter item or “blank letter”
6. Select the “to” as the patient > “Add”
7. Under the “Letters” section again, select “View or Edit.”
Attached documents: (Skip to "letters" section if NOT attaching items to letter)
4. Free text inside the letter by hovering over it and clicking.
5. To send the items to the portal open the actions bar and select “Approve – close and email patient”. > “Save”.
Letter:
1. To edit the letter hover over it in the order group, it will highlight in blue > click on the letter. Free text will now be available.
2. To send the items to the portal open the actions bar and select “Approve – close and email patient”. > “Save”.