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Send me an email mdabeck@harriscomputer.com. I may be able to connect you to some people here that would be able to help out with this.

I'm working on a few programs for amazing charts. One is a fax handler that automatically identifies the patient from the fax and then matches it to an amazing charts patient. The issue is I don't have any idea how to get the custom API for my practice to test the integration. The idea behind this is it would replace updox for the faxes but be able to automatically find the patient as well as pull out any information such as lab results and enter it into AC as capturable data. For instance, the local endo said in their note " patients a1c is 6.8." The program would pull that and enter it as a lab value so the population health module could see it. The other is a program that can create remote back ups automatically.

Does anyone have any information on how to integrate with amazing charts?

I would love to know.

I have upgraded many computers from 10 to 11pro. Sometimes you have to tweak it to get it to go but other that that it works. For those that have an on prem server there are many good backup systems out there. I can send ideas if anyone cares to know.

I don't but then again it gives me a chance to do updates and other things on the computer when I'm doing the AC update

Upgrading AC on computers in my office is a pain. We, like many, prefer to keep the server and data in house. Just the other day Internet was down (for two days actually) and all of our hard wired computers were going just fine. Unwired was an issue because it's painfully slow to run AC on them and pull from the server. That's besides the point.

When we have to update AC it sucks. We have approximately 20-25 computers, the server and 7 virtual machines. Does anyone have a better way to upgrade other than spending a ton of time going to each machine manually and upgrading? The need to turn off antivirus and that whole process is one thing but also getting the file on each computer as well.

It would be very nice to be able to have check boxes in a template for very specific things. I HATE check box medicine with a passion but I'm trying to build a template for Medicare wellness visits and it would be nice to have certain check boxes or the ability to press <Y> for yes and <N>for no with certain things. I can't believe I'm going to say this but it would be nice to have that then the ability to quickly shift to the next selection with the press of a button, BUT do not make it F2.... For the love of God please don't.....
We don't need to relieve the 70s-2020s.

I agree with a lot of what JamesNT said. I am NOT it or text support but I do learn as I go.

As for office365, from what I have heard office365 is being heavily targeted with spoofing and even smart people are falling victim. I friend of mine who runs an it business has recently been testing his clients and own staff with spoofs and he said some of the smartest were clicking the links. Microsoft article on it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sec...-and-misconfigurations-to-spoof-domains/

As for me, I hate the subscription model. I hate logging in. Way too cumbersome. I personally have been using libre office. It's free and great. Open source. You can change some settings to make it save as .docx which is Microsoft's file. You can set it as default program for everything but Microsoft makes it a little tough

Windows 10... Your computer may actually be able to be upgraded with an official work around. Microsoft claims these computers were not chosen to be automatically updated for some reason but it's because they want to sell more licenses. Microsoft used to have instructions on how to do it on their website but looks to be removed. This article walks you through it. https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-offers-tpm-20-bypass-to-install-windows-11-on-unsupported-pcs


As for back up. My office does this. Back up on the server. External hdd on the server, external drive on different computer. Every two days one of those is swapped with a third drive that is taken home. We used to do it daily but got lazy. Now it's MWF. if we are hacked and they lock the server we have an external drive on the server. If it was locked too.... Well fine. It's sort of used as a decoy second back up. Then the other in office is the real one, but what if the office burns down... Well we have the one at home. What if your house burns down, well we have the one at the office... What if both do...uhhhhh.... Well that's why I'm planning to get things automated so I can have back ups everywhere... Kidding.

What about cloud back up.... The problem here is when they get hit with ransomware. Small offices are at risk but hospital systems and medical things are a gold mine. Nethealth got hit and paid after 2 days. Major hospital systems get taken down. Something I used to use, cloud based, got hit with the heartbleed attack.

If you depend on cloud and were hit hard when half the world went down because someone didn't test an update in the sandbox but just let it out then you know why not to.

Biggest thing... If you remote in to your computer, use Google remote desktop or even better use tailscale and remote desk top. Whatever you do, DO NOT expose remote desktop to the Internet itself. Bots will start penetration tests within 24 hours. There is an entire search engine out there to find exposed ports and remote desktop sessions etc.

Fun fact I learned over the past two days... My office we use iPads or laptops to control our desktop computer using a remote connection. It's faster than trying to run the program on the mobile device and pull from the server via Wi-Fi. Even though tailscale technically goes out to the cloud then back to your office, it doesn't have to. My office Internet was down. Our server is on site so all hard wired computers had access. I could use my iPad with tailscale and Windows remote and still access my desktop so it fell back to LAN (local area Network) mode and I was going just fine whereas everyone else could not. Tailscale is honestly very simple to set up. The most difficult part was figuring out the remote desktop app.

Amazing charts has an API that is owned and handled by the individual office. For interfacing it says to contact the office you want to interface with to obtain their API.

Hello,

For one thing, Amazing Charts supports only SQL Server 2022 as of the latest version of Amazing Charts. Therefore, SQL Server 2025 is not in consideration. Yes, Microsoft did increase the maximum database size to 50GB for SQL Server 2025 Express, but again, that is not up for discussion as Amazing Charts does not support SQL Server 2025.

As for SQL Server 2022 Standard, there are clients that are using it and it works well. AC supports it. SQL Server 2022 Standard removes the following limitations of Express:

* The database size limit of 10GB is removed.
* RAM limit is raised from 1G to 64G.
* You get the SQL Server Agent.
* 4 CPUs instead of 1.

For clients that find themselves approaching a database size of 10G, even if they were on SQL Server 2025, I would still push for Standard Edition as anyone approaching the 10GB size of a database will have other concerns such as the CPU and RAM limitations.

JamesNT

Are you talking about the API to Microsoft Office? Need more specific information.

JamesNT

Hello,

Yes, the chances are not in your favor of a ransomware attack. Many think the bad guys go after big banks and fortune 500 corporations. Those entities, however, are a waste of time. Entities such as General Motors, Bank of American, Wells Fargo,etc. have huge IT budges and entire teams of people whose sole job is security.

The majority of small businesses, such as those of you on this forum, are a different story.

* Many do not have the IT budget for hard security.
* Many do not care about security because many do not care about IT. To this day, the number one reason I lose a client is because they tell me things like "we haven't had any problems in 15 years, why should we prepare for something that has never happened?"
* To this day, the majority of new clients I have signed up for the past 5 years do NOT have any type of disaster recovery process in place. No backups. And convincing them to do so was like pulling teeth.
* Many are still running Windows 10 and other end-of-life software. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Not good enough.
* Completely incompetent IT. There are a lot of IT guys out there that are just morons or older guys riding out the last few years until retirement.

The list goes on and on. The bad guys figured this all out long ago. It's better to make a little money from hundreds of entitles just like you than to try to make a lot of money from a one time hack.

What to do to prepare:

* Move to Office 365. Set up MFA. Lock down email. Email to this day is still the number one way the bad guys get in. I still have clients that use free AOL accounts, and they think that is good enough. It's not.
* Use a good antivirus such as Sophos. Something that can lock down a computer if a threat is detected.
* Disaster recovery. On and offsite backups are a most. Backups should be tested yearly. If you have never restored your backups, you have no idea if they work or not.
* Stop running end-of-life software. No more Windows Server 2012. No more Windows 10. No more. I am well aware that some of you have some old program that will not run on anything past Windows 7. You love your little program. You've had it for 15 years. But the company that made it went belly up in 2015. It's time to move on. Some of you would still be running Windows XP if you could.

That list is not the end-all-be-all but it is a good start.

James

Suggest it through the feedback screen in amazing charts

The chance for a small private medical practice being attacked by a ransomware is high according to ChatGPT. Do you have such experiences? what do you do to prepare for such threats? The impact could be disastrous for us!

Thank you for sharing in advance,

M67.A01 Plantar fasciitis, right foot
M67.A02 Plantar fasciitis, left foot

M72.21 Plantar fascial fibromatosis, right foot
M72.22 Plantar fascial fibromatosis, left foot

There are new ICD-10 codes for plantar fasciitis and plantar fascial fibromatosis as of 10/1/2026. When will AC update the ICD-10 list to reflect this change or is there a way to manually enter new ICD-10 codes?

Does anyone know how to find their own office API? I am trying to find it for an small script to interface with the system.

Has anyone moved to SQL standard 2022?
Have you noticed the SQL 2025 express now supports 50 Gig?
That would solve my space issue for sure.

Thanks Mike

As far as I know, Amazing charts does not support the Database on wireless. That's assuming you have a local server of course. Doctors like Laptops until they break them and have to purchase new ones. they don't like touch pads or small keyboards so there is that. Desktops. Yep easy to fix, secure. They stay in the office and not float around. Gi-nor-mas screen if you want one. Pour coffee in the keyboard? ya just grab another one. Pour coffee in a laptop? well it might survive.

Sig pads suck. They don't always look like the real thing. We use picture ID scanned and imported

Any information on how to do this? How do you easily import into the chart?