Ambulatory Application for PowerChart Touch
Ambulatory
Log in
Ambulatory
Review
Follow these instructions:
1. Enter your access code (1st time only)
2. Log into app with PowerChart username & password
3. Create pin – allows quick access to locked app
4. System automatically adds provider’s patient schedule
5. Tap calendar icon
to setup additional schedules
6. Tap Add Schedule & search for clinic or provider
7. Tap on resource to be added
8. Tap Done to close Add Schedule window
9. Tap Done to close Schedules window & display your schedule
Note: add multiple schedules, tap to remove check mark if you don’t want it to
currently display (25 max; 5 max display)
Note: Moving toggle to right marks schedule as default
10. Tap on the patient you want to display or search
11. Tap your relationship & Continue to review the patient’s chart
1. Chief Complaint – displays from pt’s chart
2. Notes – displays last 3 years or hit more button
3. Vitals & Measurements – only shows current days
 Touch to show previous, trends, & graphs
 Touch Summary to show previous 2 visits
4. Problems
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- will add new diagnosis or problem
 Swipe left to add current problem to This Visit (diagosis)
5. Allergies
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- will add new allergy
6. Laboratory Results
 Touch to filter for more or less results (can filter)
 Touch again to view trends & graphs
 Squeeze/pinch to expand graph
 Touch haloed dot for more details
7. Diagnostics – displays the report/interpretation
8. Pathology – displays last 3 years lab interpretations
9. Immunization History – displays patient’s immunizations
10. Histories
 Select Social / Family / Procedure
 Social – can update Tobacco
11. Visit List – displays previous & future visits
Following 3 fields can be pulled into PowerChart PowerNote/Dyn Doc
12. Subjective/History of Present Illness
 Dictate & pull into PowerChart note with ..hpi
13. Review of Systems
 Dictate & pull into PowerChart note with ..ros
14. Objective/Physical Exam
 Dictate & pull into PowerChart note with ..pe
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Ambulatory
Order
Ambulatory
Document
Things to know
Displays active & future orders
Touch Show Inactives to display inactive orders
Swipe left to Refill or Discontinue
Touch to add orders
 Search for order
 Touch listed order to select
 Touch Done
 Touch to fill in order details
 Swipe left & touch Remove to remove order without signing
 Touch
to show all orders to sign order
 Touch Sign to sign orders
5. Touch order to see detail/split view screen
Refills Remaining will alert you, so if patient is in the clinic, you can proactively refill
medications
1. Displays PowerNote (dynamic document)
2. Select Template
3. Select Type by touching Required & chose from short list
4. Chief Complaint should pull from clinic note
5. If HPI, ROS, & PE are completed in Review screen, will populate in Document view
6. History of Present Illness or any boxed section … touch in box & use mic to dictate
7. Touch Section Headings to display following actions
 Remove from Note – remove section or items
 Refresh – to update section with chart information
 Add Comment – add box to dictate in
 Emphasize – Bold selected information
8. Touch
to display following actions …
 Refresh Sections – update section with updated chart info
 Preview Note – shows how note will display
 Save Note – Save note to complete later
9. Touch Sign to sign note
Note: Saving a Note allows you to edit & sign in Touch; however, editing note in
PowerChart makes it unavailable to edit in Touch
1. Username & password can’t be the same
2. Current AutoText & PowerChart Dragon templates do NOT work in Touch
3. Specialty Apps available
4. Use gray Dragon mic … NOT Siri mic at bottom of screen
5. iPhone – pull down on 3 lines
by review at top of phone to access Order &
Document sections
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