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TELEDERMATOLOGY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP

Store and Forward Teledermatology Template
Guidelines for Referring Physicians


The fields in red type are "mandatory fields" and the black are "optional."

1. General

a. Date (dd/mm/yyyy) - [default to Today's date]
b. Consult ID [ automatically generated based on site and sequence of consults]

2. Patient information [If the system is linked to an existing legacy system, it would ideally pull all the below information from the electronic system and populate the data below into the consult]

a. Patient's Last Name
b. Patient's First Name

c. Patient's MI
d. Patient's Date of birth
e. Patient's Phone #
f. Patient's Address
g. Unique Patient Identifier (e.g. SSN)
h. Insurance information [free text, may require multiple fields based on billing requirements of the organization]
i. Sex {M/F}
j. Ethnicity {Cau, Blk, Asian, etc}

3. Referring Physician's information [All physicians should be registered with below information is automatically attached to the consult]

a. Referring Physician name [Last name, first name]
b. Referring Physician ID
c. Referring Physician's Location/Site
d. Referring Physician's Phone #
e. Referring Physician' Fax #
f. Referring Physician's Email

4. Clinical Data:
a. Reason for Consultation {Pull down choices: Diagnosis, Second Opinion,
Recommendation for Treatment, Other (type in option)}
b. Patient's Chief Complaint {rash, growth, acne, nail, hair, other(type in option)}
c. Location(s) (free text or graphic image for point and click)
d. Duration {free text or pull down options to include "since birth"}
e. Chronicity {pulldown menu -intermittent, persistent, other(free text)}
f. Associated signs and symptoms {Pull down menu -Pruritus, Tenderness, Burning, other (type in option)}

g. Palliative factors (free text)
h. Exacerbating factors (free text)
i. Number of Images (integers)
j. PMHx (defaults to non contributory unless information is typed in as free text)
k. PSHx (defaults to non contributory unless information is typed in as free text)
l. Fam Hx (defaults to non contributory unless information is typed in as free text)
m. ROS (defaults to non contributory unless information is typed in as free text)
n. Medications (Defaults to None unless Free text is typed in )
o. Allergies (Defaults to NKDA unless text is typed in)

p. Biopsy results/ Laboratory data (Free text)
q. Provisional(Your) Diagnosis (Free text)
r. Specific Questions (Free text)



ATA Special Interest Groups (SIG's)

If you are interested in participating in the Teledermatology Special Interest Group simply contact the chair of the SIG or email ATA at membership@americantelemed.org or call ATA at 202.223.3333.


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