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…
Patient Data Print-Screen, New POS
For some reason, msaccess does not allow a form printscreen to work in an expected manner. So we added a simple way to make that happen. In addition, we changed the behavior of the find box in patient data to…
Cleanup version
Refactoring code lets things run faster and smoother. And that’s what this update is about, plus a few more good quotes to entertain. So there are no “real” changes here, except a few minor touch-ups in places where, behind the…
Medicare date format changes to two digit years
For the last 17 years, Medicare insisted that all dates on a HCFA be PRINTED with 4 digit years. (Electronic claims are not affected.) But according to one of our users in Ohio, now they want ALL DATES to have…
Margin Settings Upgrade
Prior to this September update, if you had special margin settings for your reports, you would have to manually change them. From this point forward, HandyWorks will save these settings in a file on each machine. When a new upgrade…