ARCHIVE MANAGEMENT

• Archive data may be stored on tape, hard disk, DVD or CD
• Current data is quickly recoverable
• Archive data is recoverable in background
• Criteria based archiving
• Archived records are transparently available
• Reports and accounts can be printed from archive
• Archived records are available for analysis

 

ELECTRONIC MAIL (INTERNAL)

• Standard part of all menus
• Every menu shows the status of the User's "Mailbox"
• Messages can be sent to departments, individuals or "all users" on the network
• Prompts for a required reply
• Available for all users
• No limit to length of messages

PATIENT MASTER INDEX

• All essential demographic information stored
• Bad debt patients marked
• Patients may be added or edited on the fly
• Windowed indexes allow easy access
• Patient Groups available
• Security warning for limited access to data
• Patient merging facilities
• Medicare / Repatriation numbers etc.
• Medical Imaging film bag details
• Forced acknowledgement of medical conditions
• Special comments requiring operator response
• Pregnancy status
• Automatic aliasing of patients
• Notepad for extra comments
• Automatic links to hospital PMI data

BILLING FEATURES

• Includes automatic assignment of billing details at Request Entry
• Can be independent or linked to mainframe system. Summaries can be sent to central systems
• Combinations of Medicare, private, institutional and hospital billing are available with consolidated accounts being issued to patients
• The system allows :
  • User defined Dunnings cycle
  • Multiple Schedules
  • Automatic discount parameters
  • Credit card payments
  • Bank payin
  • Receipt printing
  • Automatic receipt numbering
  • Instant invoice printing
  • Editable Provider code numbers
  • reminder notices for overdue accounts
  • reconing options upon Request modification
  • Account Enquiry by Function Key
• Multiple Account Masks available

See EHealth Billing for further information.

RADIOLOGY FILM PACKET TRACKING

• Packets are PATIENT centred
• Labels are automatically generated
• Film labels are printed
• Packet Despatch and Return
• Various packet listings
• User-defined labels and lists

STATISTICS & ANALYSIS

Standard work analysis is available at any terminal. Special analysis is also available by Department or Cost Centre.

The following is routinely available :

• Evaluation sub-set analyses of QC data
• General analysis providing monthly total of specimens, dollars charged and number of procedures
• Reports presenting total dollars and requests for every procedure
• Total number of requests from Doctors or Groups of Doctors plus dollars charged
• Graphical review by 30 days, by weeks or months
• Total number of accounts
• Total number of items included on accounts
• Receipt information
• Total number of dollars charged
• Unpaid account percentages
• 12 months shown with extra total column
• Download to any system via ASCII file
• Can interface to other user-supplied programs
• HCS statistics by patient episode and site
• Unlimited ad hoc analysis using Access (SQL) query language

  See also MedExtract