The Diagnoses section contains the diagnoses that can populate within the Assessment section of a patient’s SOAP. Shepherd uses the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP), and Small Animal Specialty (SAS) subsets from SNOMED codes.

To access the Diagnoses section, navigate to Admin -> Diagnoses

To see specifics about a diagnosis, select Preview in the Actions column.

Viewing a diagnosis allows you to see its:

To edit a diagnosis, navigate to Admin -> Diagnoses and select Edit in the Actions column. When editing a diagnosis, you can add discharge instructions, upload files, and can activate/inactive codes.

Adding auto-populating discharge instructions to a diagnosis is a huge time saver. After the discharge instructions have been saved, they’ll populate whenever the diagnosis is added to the patient’s SOAP.

To add custom discharge instructions to a diagnosis, select Edit in the Actions column. The discharge instruction box is a fully formattable text field, so you can edit everything from font size to color and even add pictures.

There are pre-populated fields available to insert into the discharge instructions to help make them more personable without needing to manually edit them in a SOAP. For example, when using {PATIENT NAME} it will automatically populate that patient's name into the field on the discharge instructions.

You can also add an existing PDF file to populate with discharge instructions.