Update Blog

New for 2019

Going out on a first date? One really nagging issue has been the printing of the first transaction dates on statements. Because we only want to show the first date in a transaction that has many services, we had code…

Adding 98943 to the exam form

The Exam form allows the user to implement a care plan. What was missing from that plan was the ability to indicate extremity treatments. This is now fixed. We also made the loading of the appointment calendar prettier (so it…

Transform multiple carriers and procedure codes

Over the course of time, users have entered hundreds of carriers, many of which differ only by a slight difference in a physical mailing address. For the most part, if one is doing electronic claims, all of these carriers have…

Enhanced Connectivity Tests

Can you hear me now? Sometimes the network data connections gets lost. And sometimes the database has something “bad” happen to it. It’s very beneficial to detect these problems every time you start Handyworks. So no major changes here, just…

Screen Resizing

Over the years, many users have asked if we could resize the screen and make it bigger. We always replied that we couldn’t do this and that the only way to do this was through the computers resolution setting. But…

Goodbye 800#

Over the last few months, we have experienced ceaseless robo-fax calls from many different places to our 800 line, resulting in 100’s of hang-up fax calls on a near daily basis. Not only was this annoying in and of itself,…

April Update

A minor fix on electronic billing where a new onset date was being picked when re-sending an an older visit. (Thanks Teresa) We also fixed a problem with statements where adjustments were showing up as credits when sometimes they were…

Inventory Control

Tracking supplies can be difficult, especially if you carry a lot of nutritional products. To help solve the problem, we’ve added two fields to our procedure codes to handle inventory count and reorder warning levels. We’ve tied this into transactions…

Remember When?

This is from our archives. I think 1985. Our first DOS version. It all fit on a 1.2 meg floppy disk. We originally developed this on a Kaypro machine that had a 10meg hard drive. The first installation was in…

Upgrade Nag, Letters Fix

HandyWorks will check this website to see if a later version is available. And if so, you’ll get a gentle nag! Procedure codes marked as Favorite are now preferentially sorted in transactions. Patient age calculation is improved in narratives. Diagnosis…