Canvas provides powerful tools to help clinicians document, update, and manage patient conditions efficiently and accurately. Clinicians can record new diagnoses, assess and update existing conditions, resolve inactive ones, and revise diagnoses while maintaining historical data. With the ability to manage coding gaps, Canvas also helps ensure accurate documentation, supports billing compliance, and streamlines workflows to improve clinical and operational outcomes.

Diagnosing a Condition

The Diagnose command is used to record new conditions in a patient’s chart, creating a clear and structured entry for accurate clinical documentation. It can be initiated from the patient chart or directly from the patient summary, where it automatically inserts the Diagnose command wherever the cursor is focused.

When using the Diagnose command, the following fields are available to provide detailed and meaningful documentation:

Once saved, the condition is immediately visible on the patient summary as an active entry, ensuring seamless tracking and documentation.

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If the patient already has a selected diagnosis, the system will alert This patient has already been diagnosed with this condition to prevent duplication. Best practice is to use the Assess Condition command to update the diagnosis rather than creating a duplicate.

Assessing a Condition

The Assess Condition command updates and documents progress for an existing condition. You can add this command directly to a note or by hovering over the condition in the Patient Summary and clicking Assess, which inserts the command at the current cursor position.

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Historical Assessments

Clicking on a condition in the Patient Summary opens a modal displaying:

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This functionality ensures that users can review the full evolution of a condition, maintaining transparency and continuity in care.

Documenting Past Medical History

The Past Medical History command is designed to document a patient's medical history. It captures conditions that are no longer active but may still impact clinical decision-making now or in the future.

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Resolving a Condition

The Resolve Condition command closes an active condition listed for the patient. You can execute this command by adding it directly to the note or by clicking Resolve next to the condition in the Patient Summary.

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Changing a Condition

The Change Diagnosis command enables updating the name or ICD-10 code for a condition without losing historical data, which is particularly useful when new information leads to a more precise diagnosis.

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When the note is billable, the Change Diagnosis command ensures the billing footer and claim are updated. The new ICD-10 code is added for the revised condition, and the previous ICD-10 code associated with the original diagnosis is automatically removed.

Coding Gaps

Coding gaps are potential opportunities to enhance the accuracy of a patient’s diagnosis coding, especially for risk adjustment programs like Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC). These gaps occur when a diagnosis or condition relevant to risk adjustment is missing or not properly documented in the patient’s record

To use the Coding Gaps feature, contact Canvas Support to enable.

Manage coding gaps using four distinct commands: