Goals: Shaping the Care Plan

Goals are the patient objectives that help achieve an improved outcome for a problem. A problem can have multiple goals. For example, a patient with arthritis could have the goals to keep daily pain levels under 4/10 and to keep or increase range of motion. As the patient progresses toward the goal, make sure to update the status of the goal.

Problems and goals create a strategy for managing a patient’s unique set of medical needs and life circumstances.

Health Cloud gives you the tools to quickly and easily create a customized list of healthcare issues with assigned goals to mitigate or improve a patient’s health. From the Problems & Goals tab found in each care plan, you can add specific problems, goals, and tasks that are personalized to your patient. To speed patient onboarding, use a predefined template to automatically add problems, goals, and tasks in bulk to a patient’s care plan.

Click the New Problem button to add problems to the care plan.

Once you create a problem, you can add related goals to the problem.

Use the action menu to start managing the care plan.

• New Task lets you create a task that’s associated with this care plan, but not related to a specific problem or goal.
• Apply Care Plan Templates lets you select a predefined template and add problems, goals, and tasks in bulk to a patient’s care plan.
• Expand All opens all problems, goals, and tasks associated with the care plan.
• Collapse All closes all problems, goals, and tasks associated with the care plan.