Repopulating PT assessment notes with Evaluation status

[sjclatanoff]

It would be really nice to have the reassessment notes repopulated with info from the PT evaluation. Is there a way to do this? It takes a long time to enter the same info from the evaluation stats to the reassessment and wastes a lot of time.

[jbaughpt]

I was wondering if someone from Axxess could address this question. I’ve been a home health PT for 18 years and have never dealt with anything as user unfriendly as this software. I cannot speak for nursing, but the amount of wasted time on things that shouldn’t even take up one minute of our time much less literally HOURS in a week is extremely frustrating and counterproductive. We cannot be the only two PTs who have complained about the forms not being populated with the previous evaluation or assessment. Same thing goes for a PT not being able to populate a re-cert oasis if a nurse did the SOC oasis. I lose so much productivity, time, money, and patience opening up tabs and/or having to waste entire forests of trees printing out 8 page evaluations and RAs (which by the way don’t print out sections in the same order you enter them, causing even MORE wasted time flipping through pages) and 24 page oases. Please fix this.

[lnitschke]

I would always open two applications of Axxess at a time. One with the original eval and the other one with the re-assessment. Then click back and forth between the two. Does anyone else do this?

[sjclatanoff]

Hi Jill ,
I couldn’t agree more. I absolutely hate doing the reassessments in Axxess due to the the amount of mindless wasted time entering the eval status… Perhaps we can gain momentum to get this changed! As Laurice mentioned, I do open 2 applications of Axxess and flip back and forth but it is still such a waste of time!! This is not the case with other documentation companies that I use so I when people ask me about my thoughts on Axxess I tell it like it is- a waste of my time and because of this I do not recommend it.

[lorree000]

I agree Jill and Sarah.

[lorree000]

I agree entirely. The admin told me they were going to create a new template, but then it fell through with no start date.

[lorree000]

I used Kinnser Software in the past, which I thought was initially difficult, but it saved your personal evaluations/notes as a template, so you could use it with future patients, which saved alot of time. Axxess Admin was going to implement similar software, then it fell through. It is hard to have a full PT case load with this software, due to the extreme amount of time to complete an evaluation and first note. Hope Axxess is taking note :)

[jbaughpt]

I’m not sure if they are or not but I’m glad other PTs are speaking out because nothing happens if we don’t and maybe my agency will see it’s not just me lol. You make a great point. How much productivity are we losing because of this inefficient software? And is anyone else noticing that the mobile app crashes if you try to do the goals? I have to log in on safari to do them which is yet another step taken to complete my notes. But the reassessments are the most frustrating thing I’ve ever encountered. I almost cry when I see more than one on my day. It should be an easy visit, note done before you leave the patient’s house. It’s anything but.

[nemcmeredith]

I agree with y’all. And i don’t think anyone from Axxess cares or is looking at our input on these issues. And our administrators don’t have time to go to bat for us with all that is on their plates as well. Axxess, are you listening to your clinicians? !