Patient Education material

NOTE  Consider copyright implications when copying and pasting the information from the patient education leaflets.

Patient Education materials provide additional, take-home information about a diagnosis, strategies to improve health, or for any other reason a provider deems necessary.

Patient Education documents are accessible under View > Patient Education Material from the main screen and from the patient record.

The Patient Education Materials screen lists source materials on the left and a document viewer on the right:

Patient information from the following sources is available:

• MIMS Patient Education
• Beyond Blue
• NPS
• Lifestyle Medicine
• Itsmyhealth.com.au
• Alzheimer’s Australia
• John Murtagh’s Patient Education
• Nutrition Plus
• Anatomical images for reference

Import patient education materials

You can import the following types of documents into Bp Premier as Patient Education materials:

• PDF (Adobe PDF document type)
• DOC and DOCX (Word document)
• RTF (Rich Text Format)
• JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group image type)
• PNG (Portable Network Graphic image type)
• TIF (Tagged Image Format File image type).

1. From the Patient Education materials screen, click File > Import. The Import patient education leaflet screen will appear.



2. Search for the document to import.
3. Select an existing category, or add a new category for the document.
4. Enter the Leaflet name to appear in the Patient Education Materials screen, otherwise the file name will be used.
5. Tick Available to all users if all users are to be given access to this document. Otherwise, only the provider who imported the document will be able to view and print the material.

Print patient education materials

Select the document in the Patient Education Materials screen and select File > Print from the menu.

If the Patient Education material has been opened from a patient record, select File > Mark as printed to mark in Today's Notes that the material has been printed for the patient.