Patent ID: 8082280

Claim:
One or more computer-storage media having instructions embodied thereon for performing a method for navigating to a portion of an electronic record based upon coding, the method comprising: receiving an input identifying a reason for a patient visit; based on the reason for the patient visit, identifying a plurality of evaluation and management (E&M) coding components, wherein each E&M coding component includes a plurality of elements for E&M coding; displaying each E&M coding component, wherein each E&M coding component is associated with: (i) a first numerical value representing a quantity of elements associated with the E&M coding component that have been documented in a patient's electronic record, wherein the first numerical value is used to determine a current E&M coding level; and (ii) a second numerical value representing a quantity of undocumented elements associated with the E&M coding component that remain undocumented in the patient's electronic record and are required to achieve a typical E&M coding level, wherein the typical E&M coding level is based on the reason for the patient visit; receiving a user selection of a selectable indicator associated with one of the first numerical value, the second numerical value, the current E&M coding level, or the typical E&M coding level, wherein each of the first numerical value, the second numerical value, the current E&M coding level, and the typical E&M coding level are associated with one of the E&M coding components; in response to receiving the selection of the selectable indicator, displaying the plurality of elements for E&M coding associated with the E&M coding component indicated by the selectable indicator, wherein the displayed plurality of elements for E&M coding includes both elements that have been documented in the patient's electronic record and elements that have not been documented in the patient's electronic record; receiving a second user selection of one of the plurality of elements; referencing a data store that includes the portion of the patient's electronic record; determining if content is present in the patient's electronic record that is associated with the selected one of the plurality of elements; and incident to determining that associated content is present in the patient's electronic record, simultaneously displaying the associated content in the patient's electronic record, each of the plurality of elements for E&M coding a patient visit, and the selected one of the plurality of elements corresponding with the associated content, wherein the selected one of the plurality of elements corresponding with the associated content is associated with a completion indicator indicating that the element has been documented in the patient's electronic record.