Using Control Centre in Tali

Control Centre gives you one keyboard shortcut for the actions you use most in Tali.

Instead of clicking through menus or remembering multiple shortcuts, you can open Control Centre from anywhere in Tali and quickly start an action, navigate to a page, ask a medical question, call a patient, or work inside an encounter.

To open Control Centre:

Mac: Press Cmd + K
Windows: Press Ctrl + K

You can start typing right away after the Control Centre opens, and use your arrow keys on the keyboard to navigate between options within the Control Centre.

Options will appear as soon as you start typing, in most cases you don’t need to type the entire action name to find it.

What can I use the Control Centre for?

The Control Centre helps you quickly access common actions across Tali. The options you see may change depending on where you are in the app.

For example, when you are inside an encounter, Control Centre can show encounter-specific actions like Smart Edit, Generate a form, Add context, and Customize template.

 

Universal actions

Start a new encounter

You can use the Control Centre to quickly start a new encounter.

To start a new encounter:

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
2. Use the arrow keys to navigate to ‘Start an encounter’ (This should be the option you are on by default
3. Hit Enter
4. Continue with your encounter workflow

This is useful when you want to begin documenting a patient visit without navigating back through the app.

 

Call a patient

You can use the Control Centre to start a patient call.

To call a patient:

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
2. Use the arrow keys to navigate to ‘Call a patient’
3. Hit enter
4. Use the telephone keypad to call a patient, as you would normally do (link)

You can also type a phone number directly into the Control Centre. If the number is recognized, Tali will show a call option for that number.

To call a number directly:

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
2. Type or paste a Canadian phone number
3. Once you type a full phone number, a ‘Cal
4. A new option will to call that phone number
5. Hit enter

Do not enter any unnecessary patient information into the Control Centre. Only enter the phone number needed to start the call.

 

Ask a medical question

You can use the Control Centre to quickly ask a medical question in Tali.

To ask a question:

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
2. Type your medical question
3. Select Ask: followed by your question
4. Hit enter

Tali will open a medical search and submit your question.

If you are already in an encounter, Tali can open a medical search in the encounter view so you can continue working without leaving the page.

 

If you are in the middle of recording, the Control Centre will bring the medical search sidebar into focus. See how Medical Search works.

Dictation, audio feedback, getting help, and logging out

Using the Command centre, you can easily access these options.

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
2. Navigate to the desired action
3. Hit enter

 

Navigate to a page in Tali

You can use the Control Centre to quickly move around Tali. e.g. if you are looking for a certain setting but don’t remember where in Tali it was located.

To navigate to a page:

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
2. Type the page or area you want to open
3. Select the result
4. Hit enter

 

Customize templates

You can use the Control Centre to search for templates.

To open a template:

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
2. Type the template name
3. Select the template from the results
4. Hit enter

The Control Centre will show matching templates as you type.

 

Open recent encounters

The Control Centre can show recent encounters you have visited.

To open a recent encounter:

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
2. Look for the Recent encounters section
3. Select the encounter you want to open
4. Hit enter

Recent encounters appear when you open the Control Centre without typing a search.

When viewing an encounterUse Smart Edit

When you are viewing an encounter, you can use the Control Centre to edit your note with Smart Edit.

To use Smart Edit:

1. Open an encounter
2. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
3. Type the edit you want Tali to make
4. Select Smart edit: followed by your instruction

For example, you can type an instruction like:

Make the assessment more concise

Tali will use Smart Edit to update the note based on your instruction. See how that works.

You can also open Smart Edit without typing an instruction first:

1. Open an encounter
2. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
3. Select to the smart edits
4. Hit Enter

 

Generate a form inside an encounter

When you are in an encounter, you can use the Control Centre to quickly generate a form.

To generate a form:

1. Open an encounter
2. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
3. Select Generate a form
4. Hit enter
5. Type in the form name you want

Tali will open the form generation experience for that encounter. See how that works.

 

Add context inside an encounter

You can use the Control Centre to add extra context to an encounter.

To add context:

1. Open an encounter
2. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
3. Select Add context
4. Hit enter

This can be helpful when you want Tali to consider extra information that was not captured in the original conversation. See how that works.

 

Customize the template inside an encounter

You can use the Control Centre to quickly customize the template for the current encounter.

To customize a template:

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K
2. Select Customize template
3. Hit enter

Tali will take you to the template customization experience for the encounter’s current template. See how that works.

 

Close Control Centre

You can close Control Centre in a few ways:

1. Press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K again
2. Press Escape
3. Click outside the Control Centre window
4. Select an action
5. Click the close button

When the Control Centre closes, your search is cleared.