2.        The opening screen – entering & retrieving patient data
   1. Configuring OSDx® for first time use – click the green Options button to open the administration page. Details of this process is given in section eleven.
   2. The opening screen allows you to register a new patient or start an examination for an already registered patient. For existing patients you can open up an old exam for redoing the exam provided that the date of the exam you are trying to re-open is within 24 hours of the initial exam. For older exams you can only generate reports – you cannot redo the exams
   3. See sections 3 – 7 for understanding exams and tests
   4. If you do not see any doctor name in the dropdown – you have not added a doctor name to your institution. You need to access the Options Window by clicking on the Options button (2.1 above). You will need Admin Password for this. The default admin password is “admin” (without the quotes) – you should change it during your first use. If you forget your admin password you will not be able to access the Options form nor will you be able to edit patient details. So, note it down somewhere securely otherwise you will need to uninstall and reinstall OSDx® App with consequent loss of data.
   5. Name, date of birth and ID number are mandatory fields.
   6. In the stored records Name, ID number, and diagnosis are searchable entities.
   7. The ID number should be unique and should typically be your institution’s Medical Record Number. Alternatively, you can generate a GUID by clicking on the Generate button
   8. To enter multiple diagnoses separate them with commas - do not use a separate line for each diagnosis.
   9. Date and time of examination will be autosaved by the system using this computer's clock when you save the record to the database.

 

10.       Existing patients can be accessed through the Returning Patients tab. There are three data points on which you can perform a search (any one point at a time) – of these Name and Diagnosis need not be exact or complete (i.e. the search term entered by you may occur anywhere in the searched field) but the ID number has to be exact and complete

11.   Once you have found the patient you are searching for select it from the list by clicking on that row – you can then start a new examination, open an old examination for redoing it (within 24 hours) or generating the report, or edit patient details (admin login required).
12.   You can double click on a particular exam row or click the Open old exam button to open all exams of that particular patient.

13.   You can select an existing exam and generate the report of that exam by clicking on the Generate report button or open that exam for retesting (provided the original test has been done within 24 hours or else you will get the message below).