Knowledge Base
Designer
How To
- How To Create an Assessment or Form Template
- How to Add Assessments to a Template
- Automated Notifications
- Opt Out Patients from SMS Communications
- How to Add Conditionality To Assessments
- Create User Notifications
- Create Automated Appointment Reminders
- Turning on Notifications for Communications
- Create PDFs from Forms & Assessments
- Configure Security Policies & Roles
- How to create and configure roles
- Designer: Enable Patient Delete
- Designer: How to Configure Scored Assessments
- Designer: How to Create Automations
- Encounters and their Dependencies
- DocuSign: Implementation Checklist
- Export Designer Configuration
- Create Tasks
- Communication center: how to create message templates
Overview
Features Overview
- API Exports: Usage
- Designer: User Access
- DocuSign: Feature Overview in Designer
- Enable Patient Delete
- Brand Terminology: Flexibility
- Designer Overview
- Forms: Conditional Logic
- Programs and Phases
- Webhooks
- Notifications and Alerts
- Automations
- Presentation: Customized Layouts and Action Bar
- Data Views
- Dictionaries
- Custom Data Types (CDT)
- Change Summary and Version History
- eRx: DrFirst Overview
Custom Data Types (CDT): Designer
Designer: Feature Overview – Custom Data Types
Custom Data Types (also known as CDTs) are user defined fields that are used to record information.
CDTs are built within Designer under the “Custom Data” > “Data Types” section
- Click on “+New” in the upper right corner to create a new CDT – Enter a name for the CDT (lower case, numbers,underscores or hyphens) Note. The system will automatically generate a prefix as defined in the Naming Conventions area that you can use, or remove).
- Create your data fields (cdtf)
- Name (same limits as the CDT)
- Type: (Standards like text, boolean, integer, as well as custom types, dictionary types, and profile types (explained in other articles)
- Select options (variable by data type)
- Enter Required status or PHI status, if needed
- Choose “+Data field” to create more cdtf items
Final tips:
When creating a CDT and associated cdtfs, think about how you will use them in your care plan. Any time you access a CDT
to complete a field or multiple fields in either a data view or an Assessment, you are writing to all of the cdtfs when you save changes. So in the case you create a CDT with 10 cdtfs and you only access and write to two of them in an Assessment, you will actually, when saving that assessment, be also writing 8 blank/null values to the other cdtfs that were not referenced. This could cause display issues or data inconsistency. Please feel free to speak to the Implementation/CSM team at Welkin to assist with specific cases and recommendations. Also, always remember to update Security Policies when creating new CDTs.
More Questions?
If you have any questions, please visit the Welkin Health Knowledge-Base or contact your Implementation/CSM for more information.