I'm still not sure if we can get to Branson because of costs, kids and time away from the office. But I'm feeling more and more we can also "not afford to miss it" either if you catch my drift. Perhaps I will post this in the other tread, but a session on charting itself with AC, tricks, tips, templates and the like. Especially from a few difficult multi-issue, BP, DM, psycho social, so on and so forth FP's (no offense Bert) would be a great idea too. How to really get the most out of the charting.
Now we are starting to use the AIO for out going faxes and that is working out fairly well although Nancy and I are both getting this weird problem with the software from time to time. Check this out, she writes a good old regular AC Rx and goes to preview the Rx so she can have the window pop up that allows one choose which printer to use. We have the AIO as two separate printers, one as a regular printer and one as a fax machine. So she'll just choose which one she wants, although in reality if she is printing for real, she will choose the other HP 6300 series AIO which has our NYS paper in it at all times safely away from all patient in the back room. None the less, she clicks on 7700 fax and usually the "pick your receipient" window pops up and then either choose one or enter one. Every now and again (like just a few minutes ago) we will choose the fax one, and that choice window to pick the receipiant just won't pop up!!! And so the process just stops there dead in its tracks and so we can't go any further. Tomorrow the main tower will have this issue and her laptop will be able to pick and choose just fine. Go know.... I just can't figure out this intermident, works sometime, won't the next kind of thing. AAAHHHHH!!!
Bert, as you know we had to re-install the software more than once because of all those weird install issues that are now for the most part resolved but not entirely. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. MS and HP. How can two of the largest vendors in the country, in the world for that matter, be so messed up as to not make sure that their products play nicely together. MS Windows with an HP printer is almost like baseball and apple pie. How come they can't talk to one another and make sure that their products work smoothly together. I spent the better part of a week install a stupid network printer and not for a lack of understanding the process. Now where is my FTC on such important, affects millions of Americans type of issue???
Now as for incoming faxes, we could have them all go electronic to some assigned file on any working computer on the network, probably the tower. But the question are HIPAA like, combining lots of patients in one folder first off. Is this OK as a temporary holding place, yes, no? Two, what format would they be in and will the format the recieve in be medical business OK and AC OK??? Like I said, the Brothers seemed better at this, but they only seemed to recieve in two formats, neither of which was like PDF, but some weird old fax like one and I think TIFF. The thought had crossed my mind to use any machine to receive in almost any format, if there was a convenient and data safe way to convert them after they come into the main holding folder. Thoughts, opinions???
Bert and Adam,
How does the machine you have bring in, hold and then assign the faxes you receive. How much is manual and how much is automated? Is this one of the main things you use that neat little Bert file program for??? On scanning in old stuff, should I just scan not in AC with the TWAIN import stuff and instead just scan a whole lot of patients and their stuff into separate little files and then later go to the charts to import those scans back into the individual patients charts? What is your basic method and system? Again our software on the AIO is good in terms of quality, but what a time waster to get it to come up over and over again with each and every TWAIN import. I could grow a second beard. Again is this the reason for the Bert file program? Is it the intermidiate step in the process, scan using the Bert program which sort of files and orgainizes the scans via patient and or type of thing, and then use the import feature to bring these now typed and sorted scans into the imported section of the chart??? I think that you Bert are not even importing them, Yes? Instead you simply just use your program to look for you labs, old results, old charts and the like, keeping your AC folders smaller???
Again these types of questions and answers would all be awesome for the ACAC. I could see a "Getting Rid of Your Paper" as being one session unto itself. And boy could we use it. "Help I'm Drowning!!! blup, blup...." I'd also love to hear from Jon and AC how they originally envisioned these features to work and play. Perhaps they had a totally different idea of how to work some of them from what any of us are doing. This is one of the great reasons to finally get us all together in one place to discuss this kind of stuff.
