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RPMS Basic Skills (text)
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Welcome to the Indian Health Service (IHS) Resource Patient Management System (RPMS) Basic Skills Program. This Training was designed to provide new RPMS users with the basic skills needed to work with the different applications within RPMS. It is recommended that new RPMS users first view the RPMS: Critical to Mission Success Program before beginning this training to gain an overview of how the entire RPMS works to benefit patients throughout IHS. The following are covered in this training:

  • Introduction
  • Opening Screen
  • Logging onto RPMS
  • Menus
  • Accessing Menus
  • Exiting Menus
  • Fields
  • Numeric-type Fields
  • Set of Codes-type Fields
  • Free Text-type Fields
  • Date/Time Fields
  • Pointer to a File-type Fields
  • Computed-type Fields
  • Word Processing Fields
  • Standard Prompt
  • Help - ?, ??, ???
  • Incorrect Responses
  • Partial Responses
  • Entering Data - Scrolling Mode
  • Entering Data - Screen Mode
  • Replace…with Editor
  • Jumping Fields with the [^]
  • Using to Opt-out of Answering
  • Spacebar Recall
  • Deleting Responses
  • Using the Printer
  • Using the Printer - Browse
  • Signing Off
  • Support

If you would like a copy of RPMS: Basic Skills on CD-Rom, or would like more information about the program as a whole, please contact the Information Technology Support Center (ITSC) Help Desk at 888-830-7280. You may also send an email to itschelp@mail.ihs.gov.

This program runs best using highspeed internet access (56k or faster).

Total running time of program: 23 minutes (approximated time will vary depending on connection speed).

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