Track Patients
Record Demographics
There are three components to SoapMH:
Patient tracking is managed by a program named WaitingRm ™. It resembles the Palm address book, supporting lookups, categories, and private and masked records.
Track Patients |
Record Demographics |
With categories, you can classify your patients as "Active" or "Inactive." Alternatively, if your practice takes you to different locations -- private office, clinic, hospital -- you can use categories to track your patients by location.
Insurance companies that appear in the popup listbox can be customized. Tap the "Insurers" label and a dialog box will appear, allowing you to edit up to 10 names.
Once patient data has been entered, you can start logging encounters by pressing the "SD->" button. Encounters are managed by the program named SoapMH ™.
 Track Sessions |
 Record Encounters |
SoapMH maintains a log of every patient visit, tracking symptoms, the symptom severity, medications, and your notes. When creating a new session, entries from the previous session are automatically carried over. This provides a sense of continuity and jogs your memory regarding your patient's condition from the last visit.
Although we have tried to capture the most common symptoms, not every practitioner would agree with this list. That's why you can add, delete, or change the default list. The tabs at the bottom (Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Dementia) can also be renamed to support other areas such as alcohol abuse or sexual dysfunction.
The session date and time stamps can be changed as well. This allows you to add historical data, or to just record a patient visit at a later time.
SoapMH can gather data you've entered to produce a SOAP note in your handheld's Memo Pad application.
Here is a sample note (in blue) created for the patient John Doe:
Date and time narrative was created
Doe 3/30/03 9:28 am Date and time session was created
Session 4: 2/13/03, 10:04 am Demographic info extracted from WaitingRm. Age is calculated based on DOB BIO:
The patient, John Doe, is a 58 year old married White male.For you to complete from your desktop SUBJECTIVE: Symptoms, severity and your notes in SoapMH OBJECTIVE:
moderate Lo Energy (worse in am)
severe Sadness (1 week)GAF value shown here. Add your own notes from your desktop ASSESSMENT:
GAF=80Info from Meds field placed here. You can also use that field for plan notes PLAN / MEDS:
PaxilFor you to complete from your desktop FOLLOW UP:
You'll still need to flesh out the narrative from your desktop, but the more data you record in SoapMH, the more useful the soap note will be.