This is a very interesting addition. It includes 3 reports, allows you to control the ranges that you want to consider, and choose between active, inactive or both. It’s found on the bottom right of patient data. ENJOY!
As of 5/12, the report graph has been enhanced and an error handler has been added to one of the calculations.
I’ve often wondered what my average patient visit count was. Standard deviation as well. We had something that did this in the original HW-DOS system from the early 80’s but nothing in the ms access version. Sad.
Well, it coming soon to an update near you.
What an amazingly high standard deviation I have on my visit counts. That’s because I have a hundreds of 1 or 2 visit wonders along with hundreds of patients with over a 100 visits. So it’s not really a useful number for me. Maybe it will be different for you.
What is the average age of my patients? And Female/Male ratio as well.
The basic form is in place. The graphing is still under construction and may only available as a report rather than on screen..
Stay tuned…
We fixed an error in calculating the “contractual obligation” aka “write off” that occurred in certain “edge” cases with some insurance payments. This happens when there were multiple write-offs without any corresponding payments. This is a rare problem, as we had been using the ERA payment module for over a year and had only encountered the problem for the first time a week ago.
When patients haven’t been in for a really long time, it makes little sense to keep them in the system. While each state has different retention lengths, in NY, we must keep records for 7 years. So, at the beginning of each new year, we delete all of our patients that we are not legally required to retain. We do this from the Patient Data screen, in the inactive handling section as shown in the image shown above. Once your dates are set, just press the DEL button. As usual, it’s a good idea to have a current backup prior to this process.
I’ve added a number of famous movie quotes for your HandyWorking pleasure.
Many years ago, we revised the unpaid bills report to breakdown bills by how old they were. So bills older than 3 months old were printed in a different section than bills 1 and 2 months old. Recently, a user asked us to give them a way to use the old report, so that bills for any one patient could be grouped together. The screen above shows how we added an option for either report.
The screen size for the “3” screen is supposed to become larger for certain combinations of Windows and MS Access. One of the combinations was not handled properly. This has been fixed and is in the 2/17/2017 update.
A few gentle fixes are included in the 2/13/2017 update. First is a fix in electronic bills, when there are multiple locations and a master billing clinic, the NPI number for the service location is left blank. The NPI for the billing provider and rendering provider are included. Secondly, the calculation of visit counts for Day Stats, when there were multiple clinics, was not totaling correctly. Lastly, there is new code in the Main Switchboard that will pick up if you are not running the proper version of HandyWorks for your program or for your HWDATA.
Everything needs a little freshening, and websites are the same. This is our “New and Improved” HW website, powered by WordPress. Our Legacy site, was all html code, and maintained in a cumbersome way using FrontPage and an FTP uploader. Our intent is to document user issues on a day to day basis.
Everything needs a little freshening, and websites are the same. Welcome to the New and Improved HW website!
