Patrick Sims Developer - Medilink 2012/07/14
Table of Contents Table of Contents... ii Introduction... 1 Major Features... 2 Medilink EHR (Clinical)... 2 Tyro EFTPOS/Easyclaim Integration... 2 Minor Features... 3 New Aged Analysis... 3 Clinical Link Check... 3 Patient Balances Update... 3 New File Browser... 3 Disable Processing Check... 3 3 Month Specialist Referrals... 3 Pre-Populate Payment... 4 Strict Held Mode... 4 Single Provider Mode... 4 Single Interval Paste Mode... 4 Allow Appointment Clash Delete... 4 Next/Previous Week... 4 Theatre Procedure Order... 5 Batch Services Report... 5 Copies... 6 Make Cheques To... 6 2012/07/14 Advanced Professional Systems Pty. Ltd. Page ii
Introduction This document was written by Patrick Sims to detail the various new features in the Medilink ESI 2012+ R1 release. Please refer to previous feature list documentations where you have skipped releases etc.. 2012/07/14 Advanced Professional Systems Pty. Ltd. Page 1
Major Features Medilink EHR (Clinical) We have released our own clinical module, Medilink EHR, (electronic health records). This includes full MIMS integration and script writing capabilities, and is fully integrated to the Medilink database, (no more linking!). Contact our friendly staff or see the Medilink EHR documentation for more information. Tyro EFTPOS/Easyclaim Integration We have integrated with the Tyro EFTPOS device to provide for integrated EFTPOS and Easyclaim. This provides you with additional choice, and works along similar lines to our Hicaps and CBA/iCTK solutions already available. Please contact our sales team for more information. 2012/07/14 Advanced Professional Systems Pty. Ltd. Page 2
Minor Features New Aged Analysis The aged analysis fill algorithms have been greatly sped up. You can enable or disable this newer algorithm from General Options. Clinical Link Check There is a setting to check if your Medilink -> clinical application (i.e., Medical Director) link has gone down in General Options. Patient Balances Update You can now automatically update patient balances when you search and bring them up in the accounting screen, (General Options). New File Browser There is an option to use your standard OS file browser when prompted to choose a file by Medilink, (note: this is off by default as there have been mixed results with this feature). The setting is in General Options. Disable Processing Check From General Options you can disable the batch processing check that occurs whenever starting the Medicare Online Control Centre, (i.e., that warns you that you have batches ready to process). On some large data sets, this check is time consuming and unnecessary. 3 Month Specialist Referrals You can elect to have new referrals be set to 3 months where the referring provider is a specialist. This setting is in General Options. The Medilink definition of what constitutes a specialist referrer is any referrer in the system not set to GP or General Practitioner or <<All Areas>> or <<None>> or ZOld. 2012/07/14 Advanced Professional Systems Pty. Ltd. Page 3
Pre-Populate Payment You can now pre-populate the EFTPOS savings or personal cheque fields in the payment screen, via the options in General Options. Strict Held Mode You can make held mode more strict than normal with this General Options setting on. It disables billing and appointments for held patients, (and greys them out in the accounting module), until they are un-held, (standard held mode simply warns the user, and is able to be overridden). Single Provider Mode From the General Setup section in the Appointment Book, you can turn on Single Provider Mode. This is handy for a provider s PC, as it will only show their column. Single Interval Paste Mode This setting basically means that when you paste a copied or moved appointment you can elect for it to have a single interval or to be the same length as the originating appointment. It is controlled in General Setup in the Appointment Book, and can be turned on for copies or moves, (or both/neither). Allow Appointment Clash Delete This setting determines whether or not the system will prompt you to delete an existing appointment where there is a clash, (i.e., if you have pasted in a new appointment and it is clashing with an existing appointment). Some practices may not want to let staff delete existing appointments so easily, and will want this off. It is in General Setup in the Appointment Book. Next/Previous Week You can now display buttons in the Appointment Book that will skip forward or back a week. The setting that controls this is in General Setup. 2012/07/14 Advanced Professional Systems Pty. Ltd. Page 4
Theatre Procedure Order You can now alter the order of procedures in your theatre appointments with the up and down arrows: Batch Services Report 2012/07/14 Advanced Professional Systems Pty. Ltd. Page 5
There is a new report that breaks down batches by individual services, and allows you to choose specific item numbers. This report is available under the Office menu. Copies The copies screen has had a revamp with colour coded transactions, (i.e., like the History Report): Make Cheques To Where a provider s bank account name details in Medilink have been filled out, invoices and statements will now print out requesting cheques to be made out to that provider s bank account name, (if left blank the registered practice name will be used as previous). 2012/07/14 Advanced Professional Systems Pty. Ltd. Page 6