10-Minute T-Cell Tracker Tutorial

T-Cell Tracker has been designed with you, the medical practitioner in mind. Regardless of whether T-Cell Tracker is accessed by an infectious diseases specialist, pediatrician, HIV/AIDS nurse, or social worker, you will all find it easy and reassuring to work with T-Cell Tracker because of its simple design. Most clients are up and running within an hour of installing T-Cell Tracker.

T-Cell Tracker not only lets you create a patient medical record, it has lots of great extras such as the ability to translate and display critical HIV/AIDS data in graphic form for a quick assessment, perform a drug lookup, print a patient admitting form, print a patient’s medications schedule, and if the patient is 18 or younger, accomplish a pediatric/child/adolescent assessment. And there’s more – we’ll explain as we go along in this brief tutorial.

All work starts and ends with the Master Choices Menu which NEVER LEAVES YOUR VIEW.

There are no hidden features of “pull down” menus to make your life difficult. In order to access this menu, you must successfully enter a password to protect patient confidentiality. All of the features available on this menu are OPTIONAL – only use what you need.

T-Cell Tracker lets you customize the program to make it easier for you to work with.

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MASTER LISTS

Before you start entering patient medical data, you can customize the program by clicking on the Master Lists button. The List appears below the Master Choices Menu as with all other windows you select. The Master Lists lets you 1) create standard entries that will appear as selections throughout the system when you are entering patient data to save time and typing effort, 2) create/update treatment standards for prophylaxis options, treatment options and antiretroviral options, or 3) to set standards such as Appointment Times for scheduling patients.

For example, a sample list that may be selected is the list of physicians. In this window you identify all physicians who utilize the system. When T-Cell Tracker requests that you identify the diagnosing physician, you simply select the physician’s name from a list. The physician’s list can also be conveniently used as an address book.

ENTERING PATIENT DEMOGRAPHICS

Using this window, you enter the patient demographic information. Only those fields highlighted in red are mandatory.

Upon completion of this effort, you have now created the patient database.

To assist you in entering new patients in the system, you can print a Patient Admitting Form to let the patient provide much of the medical data desired by the system. The Patient Admitting Form exactly parallels the entries you will find on each window in the system.

ENTERING PATIENT MEDICAL DATA

Once you have entered all patient demographics, you may now enter the medical data. Distinct types of data are recorded in individual windows, so that its easy for T-Cell Tracker to satisfy your most demanding statistical data request which is available on the Find Any Data feature. For example, you can painlessly obtain a list of all patients less than 18 years of age who have been prescribed retrovir.

The following types of data are entered:

PAST MEDICAL HISTORY