When a condition or diagnosis is corrected or no longer exists, you can choose to invalidate the condition instead of deleting it to preserve a history of the condition or diagnosis. You can specify whether invalidated conditions and diagnoses appear in the progress notes or not.
To set up the view for invalidated conditions and diagnoses
In Chart, on the File menu, click Set View Conditions/Diagnoses.
If applicable, do one of the following:
If the Password - Chart Setup dialog box appears, user verification has been assigned to the "Chart Setup" task. Do one of the following:
If your user account has been granted the "Chart Setup" security right, enter your credentials in the User ID and Password boxes, and then click OK.
If your user account has not been granted the "Chart Setup" security right, have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can set up the view option this one time. The overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
If a message appears, informing you that you do not have rights to this operation, your user account has not been granted the "Chart Setup" security right. To have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can set up the view option this one time, do the following:
On the message, click Yes.
In the Password - Chart Setup dialog box, the overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
The Setup View Conditions/Diagnoses dialog box appears.
Select one of the following options:
View Existing - To display invalidated conditions and diagnoses in the progress notes if the Existing view option is selected.
View Conditions - To display invalidated conditions and diagnoses in the progress notes if the Conditions view option is selected.
Do not display Invalidated Conditions/Diagnoses - To hide invalidated conditions and diagnoses from the progress notes regardless of the selected view option.
Click OK.