As I sit in my living room, gazing at a dot matrix printer, I question my wonderful government’s choices in healthcare. You see, we created a template package that prints the CHDP PM160 Form that uses a dot matrix imprint printer. Why do you ask? Because it’s for the state of California of course! It [...]

Yesterday I was implementing TempDev’s Child Health & Disease Prevention (CHDP) NextGen template package in a practice and got to experience the love of an old school printer the EPSON LX 300+ II Impact Printer. The State of California requires that the CHDP form be printed on 4 carbon copy sheets with a unique identifier [...]

TempDev is excited to announce a new package for the California Health and Disability Prevention PM160 form has been completed and is available for purchase.
The new templates:
- eliminate duplicate data entry by automatically pulling existing physical exam, social history, immunizations, lab results, and demographics entries
- automatically determine CHDP guidelines for codes (eg race, [...]

As I’ve been working on the PM160 form, I am hearing one consistent message from all practices: “we hate that form”. The biggest complaints are…
1. the layout of the form in the assessment and immunization fields are very different from any other clinical form out there
2. CHDP has its own unique codes that are not [...]

The life of an EMR consultant is certainly all glamour. I spent last night, Saturday night, trying to figure out the electronic submission criteria for the California Health and Disability Prevention Program (CHDP) PM 160 pre-imprinted field. Woohoo! I think the worst part is, Laura was online at the same time. But, as Kathy Griffin [...]