Gillian Braunold wrote:
> Dear all,
> we use email for clinical messaging within the surgery.
> We are attemting to standardise the quality of the messages to duty
> doctor from reception. I would like to use a template.
> I know how to do this in word but can it be done directly in outlook
> without going to word at all? It is quite hard to write a macro to go
> in and out of word from outlook and into the relevant template and
> then send as email although not impossible. Is there a more elegant
> way of doing it?
> Gillian
Yup
In Outlook 2000 you would click on New Mail Message then do
Tools->Forms->Design this form.
Desgn the form as you wish (you can also design a Read Page for the
recipient), save it, publish it probably to a public folder. There after
you can access it through the Actions menu when the appropriate folder is
highlighted.
It is less complex than it sounds.
There is the inherent medico-legal difficulty of using Outlook for any
clinical information, as highlighted by Peter Wiggins at NVUG Conf in
Stratford. If you were very, very clever you could create a form that also
ran some code to drop an appropriately coded free text message into the
patients EMR in Vision when you click the send button.
If you do this, can I have copy please?
:-)
--
Paul
Glasgow
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