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Documentation and Coding Guidelines for Public Health Nurses
Menu Technical Information Description Functionality
All users of the RPMS
Women’s Health software
should have an
“MW” as part of their
Fileman Access Code.
correspondence. In
the patient management
menu, it’s possible
to maintain patient
data, such as the patient’s
next PAP smear,
colposcopy, or mammogram,
the patient’s
pregnancy, her EDC,
and her current PAP
regimen. It’s also possible
to track the patient’s
individual procedures,
including the
date performed, the
provider and clinic, the
results or diagnosis.
Notifications (letters
and phone calls) can
be tracked. The management
reports portion
of the software is
used to print epidemiological
reports, such as
the number of women
who received a
mammogram for a
selected time period or
the number of patients
having abnormal PAP
results during a selected
time period. In the
management reports
portion of the software,
lists of patients who are
past their due dates for
follow-up procedures
can be produced. It’s
also possible to store
program statistics by
date for later comparison
of program trends
and progress.
Clinical Scheduling for
Windows (BSDX)
System Requirements
• Cache v5.0
• Kernel v8.0
• BMXNet v2.0
• PIMS v5.3 patch
The Clinical Scheduling
application for Windows
is the graphical
user interface (GUI) for
RPMS Patient Infor-
This application provides
appointment
management functions
included in PIMS
scheduling, with the
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