A Quick Place For The "Have You Ever Had…" Background
The Patient screen now has a Medical History card — a quick, scannable spot for the kind of background every new clinician asks about up front. It sits just below Lifestyle.
What it captures
About 30 items grouped by body system — Heart & Circulation, Hormones & Glands, Lungs & Breathing, Brain & Nerves, Mental Health, Stomach & Digestion, Bones & Joints, Reproductive, Skin, Eyes, Ears, Cancer, Infections. Same body-system names you'll see on the Conditions form, so the two screens speak the same language.
Each item is a checkbox: "I have this." Tick it and you can add an inline comment. About half the items show a second checkbox so you can flag that a family member has it — only the ones where family history matters clinically (cancers, heart disease, diabetes, mental health).
Items that don't apply based on your sex or age (pregnancy questions for male-marked patients, prostate or breast cancer for the opposite sex) are hidden automatically. If your history includes something not on the list, tap Add+ in edit mode.
In display mode you only see the ticked items, with their comments inline. Empty body-system groups disappear. Each subheader collapses independently and your picks persist.
When to move beyond the checklist — use Conditions
Medical History is for the quick yes / no / family picture. It's not where you'd track the day-to-day story of something you're actively managing. That's what the Conditions screen is for.
Move it into Conditions when:
- You're actively treating, monitoring, or managing it.
- A medication is linked to it.
- You want to track status (Active, Monitoring, Resolved, Chronic) and diagnosis date.
- You have ICD-10 or SNOMED codes from a clinician or a CCDA import.
- You want to attach files or provider questions to it.
- You want to record the diagnosing provider and the managing provider.
The two screens don't fight each other. Use Medical History for the broad strokes; use Conditions for the deep file. A diagnosis can sit in both — the checklist tick gives a clinician a quick yes, the Conditions record gives them the full chart.
Where to dig deeper
Every screen in PHR has its own Help button (the small ? in the upper-right). Three topics worth bookmarking:
- Patient Information (S00) — full field-by-field rundown of the Patient screen.
- Conditions List (S03) — column meanings, filters, custom views, and reports.
- Condition Form (S04) — how the Body Part / Condition Name pairing works, family-history details, and linked medications.