Health Information

[KTMcClary]

Does anyone use the Health Information section of PowerSchools? What works well and what doesn't? We are about to transition to PowerSchools and I would like insight from current users. Thanks in advance for your help! Kristine McClary, RN (East Samford School, Nurse)

[KritiS]

Hi @KWPS 

Thank you for reaching out in the community for assistance.

I recommend reviewing the Import-Template and Export-Templates articles that will guide you through the process of exporting and importing files.  

Please let us know about any other queries. 

[jshoaf]

When running a health info report, no contacts, medications, etc show up. However, going into the individual student's health section in PowerSchool shows the information present as well as emergency contacts, parent info. Where is the Health Info Report information pulled from? How do I get it to show up?
Thanks.

[KritiS]

Hi @jshoaf

We recommend reviewing this document: health-setup/enhanced-health to guide you with the steps to enable enhanced health. For more information about the reports that are a part of Enhanced Health Management, you can review this document: health-reports.

In case you continuing facing any issues, we recommend reaching out to the Designated Support Contact(DSC) of your district who should be able to assist you further.

[jswafford]

Sorry to resurrect an old post. One of our nurses is asking about using the health information for students visits. She is new to the district and wants to streamline some things and make it more efficient. I think the office visits section could be beneficial to them, but the only office visit type available is acc (Accident). It is a required field, but I would like to add some other visit types to the list. Can anyone help me with this? Or is this only intended strictly for accidents?

[Jmartian]

I would go to YouTube and look for the PS Webinar from April of 2020.  That has a lot of information about how to use the enhancements.  Also you can search PS Health Plan Templates, Health Code Sets and Medications.  Those will give you directions on how to set up each section to your personal preferences for your school.  

Ex: adding types of visits:

Be in the district office

Click on District under Setup

Scroll down to Health

Click on Health Setup

Click on Code Sets

Click the down arrow on code sets

For each thing listed you can customize (which is what I did)

If you scroll down to visit type,  you can add whatever types you would like for your school

[jswafford]

I do not have code sets under the health setup. Code sets are their own and that fixed the original question I had on this post. Do you have a link to the youtube webinar? Now I need to figure out how to put options in the Visit Reason box.

[Jmartian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqIyP-acenw   This is the video.  It's long and the health stuff is in the middle of the webinar.

As for the code sets, when you click on health setup - you should see tabs: Immunizations, Screenings, Grade Level Entry Cert., Setup and Code Sets. 

I use the immunization, screenings and code sets tabs.  If you are missing any of those I would talk to whoever handles your IT stuff in your district.  It may be a matter of permissions to be able to set things up.  If you do not have the code sets tab, you won't be able to go and put options in the visit reason box because that is where you add things. 

[HeatherWeist]

@jswafford Go to District > District Setup > Code Sets> VisitType

[jswafford]

Thanks! I knew it was right there somewhere. 🙂

[jswafford]

That worked great. Now I need to figure out how to put options in the Visit Reason box. Any ideas on that? Sorry. 😐

[HeatherWeist]

@jswafford  The code set Reason is where you add the office visit reasons. 

[jswafford]

Perfect! Thanks again

[Jmartian]

I use the health section for almost everything.  There is a webinar from April of 2020 on youtube.  That was the best thing to watch to figure out how to use the features.

[VPSCHOOLNURSE]

Is there any way to get a drop down menu under "assessment"  with basic patient assessment choices ? Examples "skin warm and dry", "alert and oriented ",  etc. addressing basic body systems seen in school nursing re :gastrointestinal, skin, HEENT etc.  It seems the Assessment tab with a dropdown is referring to assessing a situation(which is not needed) vs assessing a child. It would be a game changer in the flow of a school nurses day if this was already populated like the "outcomes and action" tab and she could click on the basic assessment choices in a drop down menu vs having to write a narrative note on every child. I have asked my district Power School Tech and she says she doesn't think it is possible. But it seems it could be since it is available for "Office visit reason" and "outcomes and action" . Thank You to anyone that can help. 

Signed,

Overwhelmed School Nurse

[Jmartian]

I have no idea.  I have never tried to set that up.  I just free text my assessment in the text portion of the box.

[ParitoshT]

Hi @VPSCHOOLNURSE,

Can you please share the navigation path you took for the screen that you are talking about and share a complete screenshot of your screen so that we can look further into this for you?

ParitoshT

Community Moderator 

[Mgustave]

I am a school nurse and the school district that I work in is transitioning to Powerschool in a few weeks. School Nurses will be getting 4 hours of training on the health module. I attended an inservice today and I had a question and was told to reach out to the PS community. My concern is regarding the Office Visits. Are you able to have multiple students open at the same time or do you have to close an encounter before opening another one. Thanks in advance. 

[Jmartian]

You can have one student open at a time.  And you have to complete that encounter before you can move to another tab in PS.

[nurse_colon]

 you are able to have multiple students open at the same time but would need to have powerschool open in multiple tabs on your browser

[cpettus]

Jason Springel has been instrumental in demonstrating the use of the various Health modules on his "Insider Episode" videos.

You can browse to his Insider Index at https://help.powerschool.com/t5/Insider-Videos/Insider-Index/ta-p/58564

and search for "Health" (press Ctrl-F for "find" and type in Health).

Episode 101 has actual Health Plan templates you can download, along with instructions.

Our District also pays for a product called SQL Reports by Matt Freund. He has 37 Health reports that you can import into PowerSchool, which my nurses rely on. The price per student is very reasonable.

Cheri