MedOffIS UPDATE FOR 2003
Since the inception of MedOffIS in 1990,
significant updates have been implemented approximately every 2 years. The last major update was in the Spring of
2001. Another update will be ready for
distribution in February/March 2003. This update will be substantial and will include a new Dataflex runtime
(ver 3.2) which makes MOIS a 32 bit application compatable with all Windows
operating systems including XP Professional. It also allows printing to newer printers which do not support a native
character set. MedOffIS will still have it's old character based look and feel and will still be
fast on older computers or dial up connections. The update contains many enhancements in all areas of billing,
scheduling and the electronic medical record.
Some of the new features include but are not
limited to the following:
1.
Default diagnosis
code can be applied to any fee in the schedule (eg 30B for first and followup
prenatal fee codes)
2.
Minimum and
maximum age ranges can be applied to any fee code with alternate fee code
specification for ages less or greater than the specified range. This provides full support for multiple age
range fee codes
3.
Requirement for
combinations of start and finish times can be applied to any fee code.
4.
Billing for
services supplied by multiple physicians to the same patient can be done
without changing the desktop doctor
5.
Non MSP
registered practitioners can be booked but bills applied to registered (alias)
practitioner (useful in settings where residents see patients)
6.
New methodology
for private billing allows application of single payment to multiple services
and reports of billings, payments, adjustments and writeoff's by activity date
7.
New reports for
querying the health record (eg list specified laboratory tests for a date
range, list prescriptions by drug name or portion of drug name (eg
"STATIN") for any date range)
8.
Physiotherapy and
Chiropractic electronic WCB reporting in addition to physician WCB reporting
9.
All reports print
to screen before being optionally directed to the printer and can be imported
into any editor/word processor
10. New windows for listing "Social History" and
"Interventions". The latter
are picked from a selection list (for consistency in later queries) and include
"Breast Exam", "Vaccination - Influenza", and "Digital
Rectal Exam"
11. "Sensitivity" indicator so that selected
Problem or Social History entries won't print.
12. Size of text
area doubled in most Windows to accommodate scanning and optical character
recognition of full reports
13. Last modification date and user name applied to most
text areas in addition to that already applied to progress notes
14. Chart numbers can be applied to family history entries
to construct list of family members at same time as recording family medical
history
15. Medication selection list updated to July, 2002
Canadian Drug Index. Global selection
list and selection list limited to Pharmacare covered drugs (or user specified
formulary)
16. New popup view of prescriptions sorted by medication
name and then date so the history of prescriptions given for each drug can be
easily viewed/searched (useful for long time MOIS users who now have more than
50,000 prescription entries)
17. New label formats
18. Enhancements to
internal message centre
19.
Referral letter
and requisition history text areas added to consults and imaging windows
respectively
20.
Changes in data
base structure to allow later development of ordering system for referrals,
imaging and laboratory investigation. This will allow query of unresulted investigations, sign off of resulted
investigations and generation of all requitions/referral by the EMR
It has always been the policy of Medical
Office Information Systems that updates must be installed at the time they are
offered in order to receive ongoing support. Maintaining a potpourri of sites with different software and database
structure is too difficult to manage with reasonable support costs. Also, nearly all updates contain changes
necessary for compatibility with MSP and / or WCB requirements. In the past, updates were installed on short
notice without difficulty. However, in
order to avoid situations where updates are applied where they are not wanted,
this update will be installed on advance request by the user only. Please advise by
mail, e-mail or telephone (contact information on summary page). Requests for updates received after
The Dataflex ver 3.2 Runtime License costs about $350.00
after conversion to Canadian dollars. The multiuser edition is now the same price as the single user edition so
all users will have the capability to network up to 4 workstations without
having to obtain extra licensing from DataAccess Corporation. To account for my time in programming the
changes and installing the update / new runtime license, the total cost of the
upgrade and 4 user runtime license to all users will be $800.00 + GST. This amount and an additional charge of $200.00 +
GST will be payable if an upgrade or support is requested after
Work is in progress for a web based interface
with Teleplan. This is more than 1/2
done and will be in place sometime in 2003. About 1/3 of MedOffIS has been converted to a Windows GUI application using
DataAccess Visual Dataflex. This
application will use exactly the same database files as the current version and
will run concurrently with the current character based version of MedOffIS on a
network. Older computers and
workstations with a dialup connection can use the character based version while
newer computers use the Windows application. The Windows graphical program will allow the use of drawing objects and
incorporation of pictures such as digital photographs and scanned images in
text areas.
Medical
Office Information Systems
December
1, 2002