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Use the Help link at the top right of the Medication Risk Maps for a menu of Help items.

Toggle the Hints from the Help menu to show or hide them on the right side of every screen. They will provide context sensitive help to guide you through every action.

Toggle the 7 Steps to Safety from the Help menu; they will appear at the top of Medication Risk Maps and provide a reminder of the 7 Steps.

See it in Action shows a video of Medication Risk Maps integrated into the SMART Reference EMR Apps container. SURVEYOR Health won an honorable mention from the ONC for this. This is the easiest way to see Medication Risk Maps in use.

Click the How It Works link for a more detailed conceptual understanding of how to use the Maps. On the left side of that page or from the Help menu you can access more details including:
7 Steps to Safety which expands on the steps.
First Question First gives some examples of questions you can answer using Medication Risk Maps.
Side Effects and Interactions explains more detail about what these terms mean and the very important concept of Combined Risk.
What are Med Risk Maps provides another short version of what you can do here.

To "play" with some Med Risk Maps select an example from the Selected drop down. For some commentary on the example, be sure you have Hints toggled to show.

Hints on the right side of every screen guide you through every action.

The questions that are answered under a hint heading will change depending on where you are and what you are doing.

So if you opened a hint section before, you may still want to open it again if you are trying something different. The hints will walk you through every process.

You can hide or show all hints by using the Help menu.

• Enter Meds
  • Start typing into the Enter your Meds box
  • or Use Advanced Med Search
• Use the Risk Maps
  • Search the Risk Maps for the patient's symptoms
  • View each Map and check the Concerns checkbox next to effects you want to track.
• Identify and Replace Problem Meds
  • From the Edit Med rollover, select Simulate Impact of an Alternate
  • Select an Alternate Med to replace the Problem Meds
• Talk to your doctor about making a change
   
• To Save this work
  • Click Saveto sign in or create a new membership

• Use the Selected dropdown to select or create a Patient or Medlist
• Enter Meds
• Enter Conditions
  • Only for Patient Med Cabinets: to inform the Contraindications Risk Map
• Use the Risk Maps
  • Search the Risk Maps for the patient's symptoms
  • View each Map and check the Concerns checkbox next to effects you want to track
• Identify and Replace Problem Meds
  • From the Edit Med rollover, select Simulate Impact of an Alternate
  • Select an Alternate Med to replace the Problem Med(s)
• Save the changes
• Change the prescriptions or talk to the doctor
  

Just start typing in the box. As you add letters the drop down list will show you the Meds that contain those letters.

Use your mouse or down arrow to select a Med from the list.

If the letters turn red then they cannot be found and you should check the spelling or try entering fewer letters.

Or try using the Advanced Medication Search link.

Prescription Drugs, Over the Counter Drugs, Immunizations and many Medicinal Herbs and Supplements including Vitamins and Minerals. Most illegal drugs are not available.

If you aren't sure of the spelling try just entering a few letters and then select from the list. Be sure to wait a few seconds for the list to show up. Or use the Advanced Med Search link.

Search for the name of a medication including prescription drugs, over the counter drugs, herbs, or supplements including vitamin, and minerals.

If you are not sure of the spelling, enter just the first few letters then look through the list. If you are sure of the spelling you can enter the complete medication name.

See your Search Results:
After you enter your search term, hit enter or click the search icon to see the Alternate Medications that match your search. You can click Next below the list to page through the search results.

Click the Info icon near the Med name to see the Patient Drug Information Sheet - similar to what the pharmacist provides, complete with:

• How to Use the Med
• The Med's Side Effects Risk Map
• Brand Names it is sold by
• Precautions
• Side Effects
• Interactions
• Contraindications and Precautions

When you are signed in as a member you can:

Save Patient Med Cabinets:
You can create a Med Cabinet for each family member. This provides a history of Meds, why they were used, and the ability to easily see how Meds you or your doctor are considering will work with your other Meds.

When you enter their Meds and the Conditions each Med is Treating you can see a new Map - the Contraindications Risk Map which shows which Meds should not be used with the patient's conditions.

Save Reference Folders/Medlists which are like Basic Medlists but can be saved. Multiple Medlists can be grouped into Reference Folders so if you just want to do some research on Meds for Diabetes, for instance, you can create a Reference Folder and name it "Allergy Remedies" and within it create Medlists called: Skin Rash, Hayfever, and Peanuts.

Retrieve your Meds from one of our partners, including Microsoft HealthVault. With a HealthVault membership you may be able to retrieve your medications from your pharmacy and from then import those Meds into your Patient Med Cabient.

Basic Medlists are still available for quick checks and can be saved to Patient Med Cabinets or to Reference Medlists.

Membership is Free! Join Now.

You need to open a section under Maps & Controls after you enter Medications or select a Medlist or Patient. Then check hints again for more specifics.

• Changes to Map it! settings do not change the Med in any way. They only determine if and where a Med is included in the Risk Maps.


• If you are working with a patient Med Cabinet or a Combine Medlist you will see two columns, one for what to Map in the Before section and another for the Results section.
  
  • Check Map it! in the appropriate column to include the Med in the Risk Maps
  • Where it is unchecked, the Med is not included in the Risk Maps.
    
    
  • If you are using the Results view then only the Meds checked to Map It! in the Results column will be shown.
  • You must be using the Deltas view to see the Before section which will show the Meds you have checked in the Before column. The difference between these sections will be shown in Changes.
  
  
• For a Compare Medlist you will have a single Map It! column for the Results view as you can only use the Results view for this type of list.
  
  
• To access Map it! settings
  • From a Medlist or Med Cabinet
    
    • Check Map it! in the appropriate column to include the Med in the Risk Maps
  • From within the Risk Maps
    
    • Click the Map It! link above the Search box in the Map & Controls section to change the Map It! settings.

Click on any column heading to sort it. Click again to reverse the sort order. You may see the triangle icon or the double triangle icon .

You'll get whatever you see for the most part. To improve the results you will need to set your browser settings under File / Page Setup.

Enable Shrink-to-Fit
This will enable all columns to show on the page by making everything smaller.

Landscape
This will fit more columns on the page more legibly.

Print background colors and images
This will make the print out look just like the screen. Otherwise some of the unimportant colors and icons will not print.

Print Maps Report
These settings also help when you select Print Maps Report from the link at the top right of the Medication Risk Maps. This report gives you more control than using the browser Print menu.

Beware
These settings may affect printing other sites as well. They sometimes return unexpectedly to the default settings so you may need to reset them whenever you visit this site.

Basic Medlists are for quick checks. They are lists of Medications only. You can quickly enter the Meds and immediately check the Risk Maps for Side Effects and Interactions.

A Medlist can be a Compare list where you could list each Med for your skin rash that has been recommended to you from doctors and friends and then review how they compare to one another to choose the best one for you.

Or a Medlist can be a Combine list where you could list all the Meds the patient typically takes when they have Hayfever so you can see the Combined Risk from taking them together..

Basic Medlists do not have to be named before you can start using them. When you are signed in, Basic Medlists or their individual Meds can be saved to Patient Med Cabinets or to Reference Folders/Medlists.

This controls the Combined Risk column in the Risk Maps.

Select Combine Meds to view the combined side effect risk for all the Meds a person is taking. This is a way to view a regimen without creating or assigning it to a patient. This type of Medlist can be viewed in either the Results or Deltas views. You can set Map it! for both the Before and Results sections.

Select Compare Meds to compare the side effect risks of various Meds for a given condition. In this case the Combined Risk column will not show and you can only use the Results view and can only set Map it! for the Resultsview.

Rollover the Edit link and click on Delete this Med. In a Basic Medlist it will be removed immediately.

In a Reference Medlist, it will be marked as deleted and removed from the Maps. You can then Undo All Changes or use the Save menu to save your changes.

• Click the Edit link near the Med name
  
  • In a Medlist or Med Cabinet it is to the left of the Med Name
    
  • In a Risk Map it is under the Med Name at the top of the Med column
    
• Click on the Simulate Impact of an Alternate link
  • Click one of the options to evaluate "What-If?" scenarios
    • Based on Condition
    • Based on Drug Therapeutic Class
    • Based on Reference Medlist
    • Based on Search
  • Select an Alternate Med. * The Current Med will be unmapped and the Alternate Med will be mapped instead. This allows you to Review the Impact of the Alternate in the Maps
    

• If you don't like the results:
  • In a Basic Medlist, Reference Medlist or Med Cabinet use the Undo All Changes link to automatically remove the new Med and reset the original one to Map it!. 
    • If you do not want to lose other changes then first Save All Changes and find and uncheck Map it! for the Replacement Med and check Map it! again for the original Med
  • In an EMR Medlist find and uncheck Map it! for the Replacement Med and check Map it! again for the original Med

Use the Selected: drop down menu and click the New link next Basic Medlist.

• Basic Medlist - for quick checks

Use a link in the Save menu to Sign In or to Create an Account.

After you are signed in, the Medlist you have been working on will be displayed, and you can use Save to save your Basic Medlist to an existing or new Patient Med Cabinet or to a Reference Folder/Medlist.

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