Diabetes Evaluation 1

The diabetes evaluation MedicalTemplate is suitable for any health care provider that manages patients with known or suspected diabetes.

The diabetes evaluation MedicalTemplate includes all required E&M documentation elements for even the highest levels of complexity for established patients.

Template Features

* E&M Documentation Template
* Digital Health Record
* Digital Signature Option
* Reminders
o Follow Up
o Referral
o Labs
o Therapeutic options

The National Center for Health statistics estimates that 10% of adults in the United States had diabetes in 2006. Diabetes is the primary reason for 25 million office visits, 2.7 million emergency room visits, and 500,000 hospital visits per year.

Diabetes is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States, and is directly responsable for 70,000 deaths per year. The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse reports that diabetes contributes to an additional 225,000 deaths per year.

The toal annual health care costs related to diabetes is $132 billion dollars.

The large numbers of Americans with diabetes and the heath care costs associated with diabetes make this disease a focus of many quality improvement initiatives and pay for performance programs.

E & M Documentation Template

The diabetes evaluation MedicalTemplate contains prompters and space for all the required elements for a E&M encounter.

* History
o Chief complaint
o History of present illness
o Past medical and surgical history
o Social history
o Family history
o Review of systems
* Examination
* Medical Decision Making
o Review of data (labs, tests, imaging, old records)
o Assessment and plan