PM & EMR Tips and Tricks

Searching for Entries

MicroMD PM provides various methods throughout the system to find the records you need. With search boxes, lookup fields and find fields, you can type in a patient’s name or account number or birth date or SS No. to locate their records. You can type in a portion of the patient’s name or the description of a procedure code.

Here are some other ways you can search for entries within MicroMD:

Wild Card Characters

To search for information using wild cards, use the % sign to replace the set of characters you either do not know or do not want to type. You can insert % anywhere in the search field.

Underscore character (_)

Use the underscore character (_) as a single-character replacement marker. For example, typing _K brings up all patients who have a “K” as the second letter in their last name. If you type __K (two underscores and a K), the system lists all patients who have the letter “K” as the third letter in their last name.

Favorites Ribbon Bar

Did you know that you can now default to Favorites Ribbon Bar?

• We added an option to User Preferences to allow users to open encounters with the Favorite Ribbon Bar Displayed.
  • Go to Tools, Select User Preferences, Select the Encounter category
  • Place a checkmark next to Default to the Favorites Ribbon

Encounter Favorites Ribbon Reorder

• You can also reorder the items in favorites ribbon bar. This allows users to be efficient at moving through their workflow.
  • Go to Tools, Select User Preferences, Select Favorites Encounter Ribbon category
  • Click on the arrow buttons between Hidden Items and Shown items and highlight an item and select the arrow pointing to the right to move the item. You can also move the items up and down with the arrow buttons next to Shown Items.

When an encounter is opened, the ribbon bar shows, Encounter, Editing, Administration, Research and Favorites