Practice Director Version 2.2, Ready for Beta; Release Notes

Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by Brad Rourke in Software Updates

Enhancements & Bug Fixes:

EMR

• Additional Testing tab text fields, removed character limit
• Service Date now defaults to today’s date
• Added Contact Lens trial section
• Added confirmation dialog if creating an exam for a date that already has one
• Moved Vitreous from Disc Assessment to Posterior Segment
• Contact Lens Color Name character limit has been increased to 60 characters from 30
• Copy Subjective in Final Rx>Spectacle not copying to Secondary and Tertiary now fixed
• Load Normal Template no longer causes error by trying to load Pharmacy Rx information
• Diagnosis Codes dialog made larger and re-sizable
• Documents and Images tab will now open items in Linux
• Added ability to enter any value into Rx text fields
• Added ability to add multiple Medical Prescriptions
• Moved saving images from the database to file system. Should increase performance

Reporting

• Prescription report changed to show all information from EMR
• Patients by Insurance report now shows full Insurance Company name regardless of length
• Prescription report now shows correct office associated with prescription
• Dispensary Inventory Sales Detail report no longer shows when empty
• Insurance Adjustments report no longer shows when empty
• Medical Prescription report now shows Generics Allowed indicator
• Added OZ and CT fields to prescription report
• A/R Insurance Aging report no longer cuts off totals for large values
• Patients by Insurance Company report shows full patient phone number
• Statements now properly show all invoices with credits from returns

SpexUPC

• Now works in Mac environment
• Added Frame Facts Cost to table

Claims

• Batching claims no longer causes of-by-one cent errors
• Fixed problem where deleted claims could improperly be Rejected, thus allowing them to be re-batched
• Could not properly edit HCFA form that had more than 2 pages. Has been fixed

Invoicing

• When looking up a new patient it would sometimes not change the patient. Fixed

Prescription

• Re-wrote Patient Prescription screen to work with contact lens trial changes in EMR. Multiple enhancements
• Added ability to enter any value into Rx text fields

Dispensary

• “View/Select History” date displayed is now always the latest prescription date for patient
• Added ability to enter any value into Rx text fields

Scheduling

• In the New Appointment dialog, patient “Alerts” button wasn’t working. Fixed
• On Mac OS, pop-up dialogs not always showing correct patient has been fixed
• Saved notes now always match patient

Refunds

• Patient and Insurance refunds rewritten. Multiple enhancements
• Enhanced form validation with on-screen overlays
• The insurance look-up dialog has been rewritten for better ease-of-use
• Fixed problem of not being able to view voids when all amount had been voided and none was refunded

Patient Payments

• Changed “Adj” column to “Write off”. Changed “Payment” to “Transaction” in View dialog
• Enhanced form validation with on-screen overlays

Returns

• Enhanced form validation with on-screen overlays
• Fixed problem with deleting an insurance return that had been refunded
• Insurance Credits created from a return now have the date of the return instead of current date

Insurance Payments

• Enhanced form validation with on-screen overlays

Patient Demographics

• Enhanced “stale patient” check to better detect when changes to a patient happen in other areas of the application (invoicing, EMR)
• Added Images tab to Patient Demographics that contain all images for a patient
• Appointment History now shows all past and future appointments. It used to limit past appointments to three.

Insured Persons

• Can now delete an insured person

Keyboard shortcuts have been added to the application in several locations.  Major screens have been given the following shortcuts:

• Ctrl-D – Patient Demographics
• Ctrl-S - Scheduling
• Ctrl-N – Insurance Payments
• Ctrl-I - Invoicing
• Ctrl-L – Ledger
• Ctrl-P – Patient Payments
• Ctrl-F - Refunds/Voids
• Ctrl-T - Returns
• Ctrl-Y – Dispensary
• Ctrl-M – EMR

Hitting those key combination’s anywhere in the application will take you to those screens.

Additionally, the Insurance Payments screen has some added keyboard shortcuts internally. <em>Alt-left arrow</em> and <em>Alt-right arrow</em> now move from claim to claim in the navigation table. When editing the Payment Posting table, <em>enter</em>, <em>tab</em> or the <em>arrow</em> keys move from field to field. When on the “Rollover Disallowed To” field, hitting the <em>F2</em> key will open the drop down.

Tags: Release Notes, Version 2.2