Hello,

Is anyone using the Medical tab in Registrar's Office?  We are in the process of converting to EE and plan to use this tab to manage our Health Services medical records.  We are wondering how it has worked out (or not) for other schools. 

Thanks,

- Jeanne Townsend

Software Project Coordinator

The Williston Northampton School

Jeanne,

We were going to use it to record the current immunizations.   However,  our nurse found the input too time consuming to accomplish this.   I do not think she is even using to record the dispensed medications at this time.

Phyllis Salmon

Blackbaud System Administrator

Parish Episcopal School

The nurses from my 4 buildings are currently evaluating.  On the plus side, it's linked to our database and would eliminate them having to separately set-up and constantly maintain all the contact and enrollment info.  (Previously they did a Blackbaud export to Excel and then a mail merge into a ginormous Word document (about 400 pages each) to handle all the charting at the beginning of each year.)  They also loved the idea of being able to click on emails directly out of BB.

 The obstacles include:

• Is there enough free-form entry to accommodate their notes?  (They won't use the "Diagnosis" drop down due to legal issues.  That leaves 2 drop down fields and 1 limited entry "notes" to fit in all their requirements in addition to the date/time fields.)  We're trying to stay with the Visit/Medication tab so the notes are automatically tied to a visit date and visible.
• Since you have to use a table to record "Visit Type" and "Health Problem", it doesn't easily lend itself to when a kid comes with a headache AND sore throat.  You either (1) record them separately which would overinflate your visit summary or (2) have a L  O    N     G table with all the different combinations.  Not sure which is the least of those 2 evils ...
• I feel like I'll need to increase my licenses since I believe they'll log in the a.m. and camp on all day long to handle the intermittent nature of their jobs.

Hope that helps!

Jane Haslem, Blackbaud Database Manager

Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy  (Cincinnati, OH)

We've been using it all of this (our first) year.  Our LS nurse loves it and has fully embraced it for daily meds, immunizations, office visits, etc.  She loves the reporting features and understands that it's usually easier to adjust the way she does things a little to make the canned reports work for her.  

Our MS/US nurse has been using it for  office visits and has created a HUGE table for diagnosis.  I've encouraged her to sit with me to try to consolidate now that a year has gone by, but she's ok with it like it is (she ends up typing the first few letters of her diagnosis so the table jumps to what she needs). She's been less willing to adjust her ways, but after the administration supported the school's decision to use Education Edge, and told her that we were not going to support or fund any other nursing programs (she's been through about 3 in the last few years), she seems to be making it work.