Documenting a Telehealth Exam on the Web
Encompass enables you to document telehealth
The practice of caring for patients remotely via telephone or video conference. Patients and providers are not physically present with each other. These visits require additional billing codes and modifiers. services much like you would a typical visit when a patient is in the office.
What do you want to do?
Configure the visit type
You can configure the visit type as a telehealth encounter by managing the visit settings. For more information, see Managing Visit Settings and Adding Notes.
Document the eye exam
- Open a patient's visit.
- Go to the Ocular Exam Room.
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Click Perform Exam.
The Select Exam Set window opens.
The tabs across the left of the window show various types of exam sets.
- Click the Telehealth tab.
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Select Telehealth Eye Exam.
An abridged version of the usual eye exam screen appears. This abridged eye exam focuses only on areas typically assessed as a part of a telehealth visit. Unlike the standard Eye Exam set, no findings are indicated by default.
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Document your eye exam findings.
For general instructions on documenting eye exam findings, see Recording Findings in the Eye Exam.
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Click Done with exam when you are finished.
Your exam findings are saved. You can review what you recorded by scrolling down to the Progress Note at the bottom of the screen.