Type .pt in a visit note and Hero brings forward the diagnosis, precautions, goals, plan of care, last measurements and the exercise program. You confirm what you did, record what changed, and add today’s minutes. Evaluations, daily notes, progress reports, re-evaluations and discharges, all in one note.
Built into the Hero EMR note writer and on by default for every Hero practice. Works by mouse, by keyboard, or by voice.
Pick the note type with one key and the note adapts: the fields that note needs come first, the rest stay out of the way, and anything you already recorded always shows. Seven sections: Subjective, Objective, Treatment, Assessment, Goals, Plan and Time.
History and mechanism, prior level of function, full measurements, rehab potential, short- and long-term goals and the plan of care.
Opens on the treatment flowsheet with last visit’s program ready to confirm. Measurement tables show only what you measured today.
The visit strip counts treatment days since the last report, and the 10th treatment day starts as a progress report on its own.
Re-test, update every goal’s status, restate the skilled need and revise the plan of care.
Final outcome measures first, a final status for every goal, the discharge reason and the home program.
When the patient was seen in the last 90 days, the new note starts from that visit automatically. Nothing is documented for you: last visit’s exercises arrive as planned and print only once you confirm them.
Click a region on the body map to add its rows, then type values with the keyboard. Today’s value sits beside last visit’s, with the change shown for you.
33 motions with their normal values, right and left side by side, last visit’s value and the change, passive range columns and pain at end range when you need them.
Manual muscle testing 0–5 with plus and minus for 27 muscle groups, and 46 special tests by side, from Spurling’s to Dix-Hallpike.
Today’s score against baseline, the change marked improved or worse, MCID met when it counts, and fall-risk thresholds shown when a score crosses them.
Normal ranges, MCIDs and thresholds are widely cited reference values shown beside your numbers. Interpretation stays with the therapist.
Link a goal to a measurement and give it a target date. Each visit shows today against baseline automatically, so you never copy a number into a goal again.
Record the minutes for each service and the total treatment time, the way Medicare asks a therapy note to show them. Hero builds the charge lines from them when the encounter is completed, so codes are never typed twice.
Therapeutic exercise, manual therapy, neuromuscular re-education, gait training, therapeutic activities and modalities, by the names you use, plus total treatment time. No codes in the note, and dictation keeps a minute value only when you say it.
When the visit is completed, Hero adds a line per service in charge capture: units by the 8-minute rule (the CMS rule for Medicare and Medicare Advantage, your practice’s choice for other payers), the right therapy modifiers for who wrote the note, and the evaluation code from the evaluation complexity. You review the lines before signing.
What an evaluation, daily note, progress report, re-evaluation or discharge needs, with each missing item one click from its field: a status for every goal, minutes on every timed service, a passed goal date.
The visit strip counts treatment days since the last report and says when the next one is due; Medicare expects one at least every 10 treatment days.
Plan-of-care dates in view, a recertification reminder when the plan lapses, and a signed certification reset when the plan changes.
One heading per section, measurements with their previous values, goals with today and baseline. Exactly what you see is what you sign and print.
The documentation checklist lists elements Medicare and most payers expect. It is guidance, not a coverage determination, and it never blocks signing; coding decisions stay with the clinician. See what each note type checks.
Every action is a button, a key, and something you can say.
Tab moves field to field and on into the next section. Each group of choices is a single Tab stop.
Speak to the block for a quick update, or record the whole visit and let the note fill itself.
Pain now, at best and at worst; location and quality; the patient’s report; functional limitations; home-program adherence; history, onset and surgery dates on evaluations.
Body map, range of motion, strength, special tests and outcome measures; gait, assistive device, transfers, balance, posture and more.
The exercise flowsheet by category with sets, reps, load, time and side; skilled care, patient education, response to treatment and the home program.
Your assessment, problem list, progress toward goals, rehab potential, barriers and the skilled need.
Short- and long-term goals with status, linked measurements, baselines and target dates.
Frequency and duration, plan-of-care dates, planned interventions, physician certification, the next visit and the discharge reason.
Minutes per service and total treatment time; charge lines built at encounter completion.
Visit strip with visit count, progress-report clock, authorization and post-op week; documentation checklist; note text for signing and printing.
We’ll walk through an evaluation, a daily note started from the last visit, and a progress report, with your own workflow in mind.