Medical records: create your own templates with TIMP

The medical records are an essential tool for any healthcare professional.
In fact, if you use TIMP to manage your clinic, our 100% digital medical records are sure to be your right eye on a day-to-day basis.

For this reason, today we want to share with you something you may not know:

TIMP medical record templates.
Sound familiar?
Do you know all about them?
Are you sure?

Let’s check it out!

A few years ago, every clinic dreamed of a solution that would allow them to leave behind the boring paper records that, in addition to taking up space and getting misplaced, slowed down any type of search.

Today that dream is already a reality thanks to the advantages of TIMP medical records: they are secure, you can quickly access the information they contain and you can write-protect them, among others.

But what if you want to have a customized medical record?
Perhaps your center offers a very specific type of treatment that requires fields structured in a specific way.
That’s where customized templates come into play, allowing you to create a record template tailored to your needs.

In the following section we are going to explain what the medical record templates consist of, how you can create them and what steps to follow to give them the form you prefer.

Customized templates are blank documents that you can structure as you see fit thanks to the configurable elements they contain.
Once they have been adapted to your center, you can use them in all those cases that fit the structure you have defined in them.

In TIMP you have the possibility of creating as many templates as you need: one for records for a certain type of patient, another for patients with that specific treatment that you need to record down to the last millimeter, etc.

You will soon see how easy it is to create a template for your facility’s medical records.

From your control panel you only have to access the Center Settings and click on Templates.
Once there you will see that you have two options: create a new template for medical records or for contracts.
In this case, click on the New template button next to the option Medical records.

Now you are in the base template to create your clinical history model and the first thing to do is to enter its name in the initial box.
This will be the title of the document you are going to create, for example: Endodontic patients’ clinical history.

With the template name defined, the next step is for you to add the fields for the data that the history should reflect.
To do this you will open a drop-down containing each of these blocks, choosing the ones you need and inserting them into the template in the order you want.

Some of these fields are the following:

In this block you can describe the information that the medical record will contain.
You have several paragraphs for this.

Use it to add complementary information.

It is similar to the previous field, but its short length -about one line- makes it very suitable for writing, for example, the title of a section that you want to differentiate from the rest of the sections.

Here you can enter a date in the format day/month/year.
If you also want the time of the session to be recorded, you can select the field that also includes this data.

Adding this section gives you the possibility to create as many options as you need for a value you create in the form.

Imagine that you add in your history template a drop-down with the title “Is the patient taking pain medication?”; now you can add several answers: “Yes”, “No”, “Don’t know for sure”…. When you are in consultation with your patient and fill in the form, these options will be displayed for you to choose the appropriate one.

It is similar to the options drop-down, although here you will see all the answers you add at the same time, of which you will only be able to mark one.

Unlike the previous field, in this selector you will be able to mark several of the added answers .

Now that you have all the fields your form needs, you can save the template to use it whenever you want.
You can edit it later and move the elements around, insert new ones or remove the ones that for some reason have become unused in your practice.

Ah!
And if at any time you delete a template, don’t worry: although it will not be available for the next medical records you register, the ones you filled in with that template as a basis will remain intact.

Start creating your first templates now and your practice’s medical records will look like never before with TIMP.