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Measurements

The Measurements section is a PRO Charting section for capturing structured numerical observations during a visit — blood pressure, heart rate, weight, height, temperature, and any other measurable quantity you track. Each measurement is captured with a unit and a date, so values can be compared visit over visit and surfaced as trend data in the Patient Workspace.

Adding the Measurements Section

In the chart editor, click the green +O button (Objective page) on the left side of the chart index, then choose Measurements from the menu. The section appears in the chart with rows for each measurement type you’ve already configured.

For first-time use, you’ll see a default set of common measurements (blood pressure, pulse, weight, etc.). You can add more measurement types as needed — see Configuring Measurement Types below.

Entering a Measurement

Each row in the Measurements section accepts:

  • A value in the unit shown
  • The date the measurement was taken (defaults to the chart date — change it if the measurement was recorded earlier)
  • Optional notes for context (left arm, fasting, after exercise, and so on)

Leave a row blank if the measurement wasn’t taken this visit — empty rows aren’t recorded, so you don’t end up with phantom zero values in the patient’s history.

Where Measurements Show Up

  • In the chart — exactly as you entered them, on the Objective page
  • In the Patient Workspace Medical Summary — the most recent value for each measurement type appears alongside the patient’s other vitals
  • In trend graphs — when there are multiple values for the same measurement type over time, the Medical Summary can plot them as a line graph

The trend view is the main reason for using structured Measurements rather than free-form text in an Objective section — the numbers are queryable and comparable.

Configuring Measurement Types

Each office can customize which measurements appear in the Measurements section by default — useful when your practice focuses on a specific measurement set (acupuncture might add pulse qualities, naturopathy might add bioimpedance values).

Configure measurement types from the Charting Preferences page — see Charting Preferences. New measurement types added there appear in every future Measurements section.