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Re: CottageMed improvements
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Malcolm Sickels
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Apr 20, 2009 16:13 PDT
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Yes, I am on FileMaker Server, and despite opening the databases with
a single user copy of FMP (after turning the server off and moving
them out of the Database folder and opening it with FMP (where it does
what it's always done when not run through Server: default to printing
current record only), then turning the server on and importing them
into the Database folder via FMS) it still defaults to printing all
records. Any other ideas?
Also, I had the troubling experience of FMS not knowing that it was
out of date and denying that there was a newer version when I upgraded
the computer it's running on. The new computer had 10.5.6 and I was
running FMS 9v2 and you need the latest version of FMS (9v3.326) to
run on 10.5. Just a heads-up.
FYI, we're still plugging away with insurance. I can't bear to cut
off the people who can't afford to pay out of pocket, and am paying
the price with a lower income. It's values vs pocketbook. If it
wasn't sustainable, I'd change it, but it is (just barely).
Malcolm Sickels MD
210 Little Lake Drive, Suite 10
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://drsickels.com
734-332-9936
On Dec 20, 2008, at 8:09 AM, Stefan Topolski wrote:
| | Hello Malcolm,
Yes, great points. We really appreciate your suggestions and hard
work.
When you see a feature or behavior not hold after restarting, it
means you are using FileMaker Server. These often involve global
variables which are unique for each user when you log in to
CottageMed. When each user logs out, however, their unique global
value is discarded and the original global value for the database
remains on the hard drive file.
This is normal, it's not a bug, it's the way databases manage
multiple users. The solution is to turn off the Server program,
pull your files out to your desktop, open them up with a single-user
copy of FIlemaker Pro, set the variables and values and behaviors
the way you want, then close Filemaker Pro. When you re-upload
these database files to the server as your new copies, your new
settings which you set in Filemaker Pro single-user will be the
settings that come up as default when the files are shared to others
through Filemaker Server.
As for billing, failed promises of billing companies is the norm.
Their performance, in my opinion, gets worse each year as they are
outmaneuvered by the gamesmanship of much larger insurance companies
they seek payment from. Doing it yourself, though, is an even
riskier venture that is a step further backwards.
THIS IS WHERE EVERY NEW AND YOUNG PRACTICE I CONSULT FOR FAILS IF IT
FAILS. In U.S. health care today there is a huge crime. It's not
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. It's BILLING, BILLING, BILLING...
I know that you've had problems with your state laws and considering
firms like Athena. I get nothing from Athena for this suggestion.
They are INCREDIBLE, and you need a large outfit that's national
like Athena, any outfit as big as Athena, with the resources, people
power, and computer automation skills to keep up with the insurance
'big boys' and play the insurance billing game to win.
I hope you can find some arrangement like this, or go cash-only.
Billing insurance yourself is a dead-end game that's too dangerous
for me to play. I do hope that you have better luck at it than
almost everyone else. I really want you to keep growing and succeed!
Yours Truly,
Stefan
"One gathers peace as a feather in the palm of one's hand." -
anonymous
Stefan Topolski MD
U. of Massachusetts School of Medicine
U. of New England
Caring in Community, Inc.
1105 Mohawk Trail
Shelburne Falls, Ma.
http://www.cottagemed.org
On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:26 PM, Malcolm Sickels wrote:
| | Yeah, doing the jump once was a more painful endeavor than the
smaller jumps, but it's hard to find the time to do it and deal
with the unknown consequences of the changes. Upgrades are always
a leap into the unknown and I want to subject me, my staff and my
patients to as little as possible. I take full responsibility for
the unusual upgrade path and expected the pain, so was documenting
the changes I made for myself (since I'll have to re-do some them
every time I upgrade for my idiosyncrasies (another reason I do it
as little as possible) and if it just put it on paper it'll get
lost) and for anyone else who might be in the same boat. If
anything it's a testament to how good 1.9.1 was: no compelling
reason to upgrade.
We've since stopped using our billing company and are doing it
ourselves.
I think the PDF saving problem went away. No idea why.
We switched to FileMaker Server (running on my old G4 768DP MDD)
over gigabit ethernet (except one notebook on the newest airport),
and some things are actually faster than they were before and
there's fewer problems! There is one new issue, though: when
quitting and restarting FMP, the print dialogue defaults to
printing "all records" rather than only the records being browsed,
so if I don't fix it each restart I end up getting all of a
patient's prescriptions printing out instead of the one I'm printing.
Dr. Malcolm Sickels, MD
210 Little Lake Drive, Suite 10
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://drsickels.com
734-332-9936
On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Stefan Topolski wrote:
| | Thank you , Malcolm -
Your suggestions are very helpful. Some are unique to your
install, some are useful to all users. Some such as not being
able to save a print preview are not the purview of Filemaker or
CottageMed and you'll have to look to the Mac OS for the problem
there.
The Rx changes were required and all fields have more advanced
functions for specific user needs. We will fix the tab order
again. Some users prefer to have the past cc: and vitals present
for their workflow. We will debate those changes some more.
The most important advice we can give you to make the upgrade
process smoother is to upgrade much sooner. Jumping from version
1.9 to 2.5 is a huge jump over several years of program
development. It's a bit too much to ask the program and
programming team to make painless for you.
So in the future, please upgrade each year so that your experience
is as smooth and enjoyable as that of other CottageMed users.
Yours Truly,
Stefan
"One gathers peace as a feather in the palm of one's hand." -
anonymous
Stefan Topolski MD
U. of Massachusetts School of Medicine
U. of New England
Caring in Community, Inc.
1105 Mohawk Trail
Shelburne Falls, Ma.
http://www.cottagemed.org
On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Malcolm Sickels wrote:
| | Other changes I made to the 2.5.1b version I moved to today and
yesterday:
-edited the startup script to hide _all_ the windows except the
main one (Alerts and AllPhonesAddresses were previously left
showing but I never use them), and switched the inequality in the
4th to last line to <= since it seemed to always show the alert
even if I just backed up.
-edited the layout of the Superbill to include "Checked Dx is
primary!" above the checkboxes, made more room for the pt paid
amount and added 2 decimal places to that display and the total,
and moved things around to make room for the numbers.
Also, somehow the page setup was set to horizontal orientation
and the print dialogue defaulted to 2 copies, but that might just
be something on my end (though these are brand-new installs of
FM9).
Also for some reason we can no longer save a print preview of the
superbills (we have been hitting preview and then saving (to
their files) a PDF of the superbill and then hitting the print
button and printing it out for the billing company). Any idea
why that's happening?
The prescription list seems to be sorted differently now, too. I
don't see the logic in it any more.
There's also some weirdness with the dates logged in the Rxs. On
several Rx written today (often on spaces left from old scripts)
or refills, the date entered into the Rx log is a previous date,
often the date of the last time that prescription was printed.
Interestingly, the log still has them sorted by when I actually
printed them (so even though a script I printed today has a date
before some other things further down the log's list).
Also, there's this "Date" column in the Rx section that doesn't
seem to relate to anything (it doesn't have the date of the Rxs I
just printed today!). I'll go in and see what it's supposed to
do. I didn't get vary far since I don't know what all the script-
maker functions are.
I also turned off drag and drop text selection since it gets me
in more trouble than it's worth (since dragging is a good way to
get around in a note).
I'm also having trouble with all clients logging in with the same
credentials (whatever the serving computer (mine) logs in as, so
do all the others), but this may get fixed when I move it to a
dedicated server.
The new find function (from pressing the button) while having a
good warning now leaves the person in the list view which makes
more work, but if cmd-F works just as well, it may not be a big
deal
I had to re-designate the tabs to make the tab order for the Rx
lines all in a row (24-30) in the Notes layout. Otherwise,
hitting tab goes awry and you can't enter a bunch of Rx one after
the other (like when putting in a new pt) without using the mouse.
I would like to not have the Rx pad window show up (in back)
every time I start a SOAP note, but it's not plain in the
script. It'd also be good to have it clear the vitals/CC box
when it puts them in a note.
Dr. Malcolm Sickels MD
210 Little Lake Drive, Suite 10
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://drsickels.com
734-332-9936
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<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes, I am on FileMaker Server, and despite opening the databases with a single user copy of FMP (after turning the server off and moving them out of the Database folder and opening it with FMP (where it does what it's always done when not run through Server: default to printing current record only), then turning the server on and importing them into the Database folder via FMS) it still defaults to printing all records. Any other ideas?<div><br></div><div>Also, I had the troubling experience of FMS not knowing that it was out of date and denying that there was a newer version when I upgraded the computer it's running on. The new computer had 10.5.6 and I was running FMS 9v2 and you need the latest version of FMS (9v3.326) to run on 10.5. Just a heads-up.</div><div><br></div><div>FYI, we're still plugging away with insurance. I can't bear to cut off the people who can't afford to pay out of pocket, and am paying the price with a lower income. It's values vs pocketbook. If it wasn't sustainable, I'd change it, but it is (just barely).<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Malcolm Sickels MD</div><div>210 Little Lake Drive, Suite 10</div><div>Ann Arbor, MI 48103</div><div><a href="http://drsickels.com">http://drsickels.com</a></div><div>734-332-9936</div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 20, 2008, at 8:09 AM, Stefan Topolski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Malcolm,<div><br></div><div>Yes, great points. We really appreciate your suggestions and hard work.</div><div><br></div><div>When you see a feature or behavior not hold after restarting, it means you are using FileMaker Server. These often involve global variables which are unique for each user when you log in to CottageMed. When each user logs out, however, their unique global value is discarded and the original global value for the database remains on the hard drive file.</div><div><br></div><div>This is normal, it's not a bug, it's the way databases manage multiple users. The solution is to turn off the Server program, pull your files out to your desktop, open them up with a single-user copy of FIlemaker Pro, set the variables and values and behaviors the way you want, then close Filemaker Pro. When you re-upload these database files to the server as your new copies, your new settings which you set in Filemaker Pro single-user will be the settings that come up as default when the files are shared to others through Filemaker Server.</div><div><br></div><div>As for billing, failed promises of billing companies is the norm. Their performance, in my opinion, gets worse each year as they are outmaneuvered by the gamesmanship of much larger insurance companies they seek payment from. Doing it yourself, though, is an even riskier venture that is a step further backwards. </div><div><br></div><div>THIS IS WHERE EVERY NEW AND YOUNG PRACTICE I CONSULT FOR FAILS IF IT FAILS. In U.S. health care today there is a huge crime. It's not LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. <b>It's </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>BILLING, BILLING, BILLING</b></span><b>...</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I know that you've had problems with your state laws and considering firms like Athena. I get nothing from Athena for this suggestion. They are INCREDIBLE, and you need a large outfit that's national like Athena, <i>any</i> outfit as big as Athena, with the resources, people power, and computer automation skills to keep up with the insurance 'big boys' and play the insurance billing game to win.</span></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I hope you can find some arrangement like this, or go cash-only. Billing insurance yourself is a dead-end game that's too dangerous for me to play. I <i>do</i> hope that you have better luck at it than almost everyone else. I really want you to keep growing and succeed!<br></span></b><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Yours Truly,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; ">Stefan</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" style="font-size: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; ">"One gathers peace as a feather in the palm of one's hand." -anonymous</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></font></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">Stefan Topolski <span class="s1" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8px; ">MD</span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">U. of Massachusetts School of Medicine</span></div></span></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 9px; ">U. of New England</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">Caring in Community, Inc.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">1105 Mohawk Trail</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">Shelburne Falls, Ma.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(3, 60, 255); font-size: 9px; "><a href="http://www.cottagemed.org">http://www.cottagemed.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 9px; "><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:26 PM, Malcolm Sickels wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yeah, doing the jump once was a more painful endeavor than the smaller jumps, but it's hard to find the time to do it and deal with the unknown consequences of the changes. Upgrades are always a leap into the unknown and I want to subject me, my staff and my patients to as little as possible. I take full responsibility for the unusual upgrade path and expected the pain, so was documenting the changes I made for myself (since I'll have to re-do some them every time I upgrade for my idiosyncrasies (another reason I do it as little as possible) and if it just put it on paper it'll get lost) and for anyone else who might be in the same boat. If anything it's a testament to how good 1.9.1 was: no compelling reason to upgrade.<div>We've since stopped using our billing company and are doing it ourselves.</div><div>I think the PDF saving problem went away. No idea why.</div><div>We switched to FileMaker Server (running on my old G4 768DP MDD) over gigabit ethernet (except one notebook on the newest airport), and some things are actually faster than they were before and there's fewer problems! There is one new issue, though: when quitting and restarting FMP, the print dialogue defaults to printing "all records" rather than only the records being browsed, so if I don't fix it each restart I end up getting all of a patient's prescriptions printing out instead of the one I'm printing.<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dr. Malcolm Sickels, MD</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">210 Little Lake Drive, Suite 10</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ann Arbor, MI 48103</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://drsickels.com">http://drsickels.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">734-332-9936</font></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Stefan Topolski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you , Malcolm -<div><br></div><div>Your suggestions are very helpful. Some are unique to your install, some are useful to all users. Some such as not being able to save a print preview are not the purview of Filemaker or CottageMed and you'll have to look to the Mac OS for the problem there.</div><div><br></div><div>The Rx changes were required and all fields have more advanced functions for specific user needs. We will fix the tab order again. Some users prefer to have the past cc: and vitals present for their workflow. We will debate those changes some more.</div><div><br></div><div>The most important advice we can give you to make the upgrade process smoother is to upgrade much sooner. Jumping from version 1.9 to 2.5 is a huge jump over several years of program development. It's a bit too much to ask the program and programming team to make painless for you.</div><div><br></div><div>So in the future, please upgrade each year so that your experience is as smooth and enjoyable as that of other CottageMed users.<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Yours Truly,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; ">Stefan</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" style="font-size: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; ">"One gathers peace as a feather in the palm of one's hand." -anonymous</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></font></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">Stefan Topolski <span class="s1" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8px; ">MD</span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">U. of Massachusetts School of Medicine</span></div></span></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 9px; ">U. of New England</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">Caring in Community, Inc.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">1105 Mohawk Trail</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; ">Shelburne Falls, Ma.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(3, 60, 255); font-size: 9px; "><a href="http://www.cottagemed.org">http://www.cottagemed.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 9px; "><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Malcolm Sickels wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Other changes I made to the 2.5.1b version I moved to today and yesterday:<div>-edited the startup script to hide _all_ the windows except the main one (Alerts and AllPhonesAddresses were previously left showing but I never use them), and switched the inequality in the 4th to last line to <= since it seemed to always show the alert even if I just backed up.</div><div>-edited the layout of the Superbill to include "Checked Dx is primary!" above the checkboxes, made more room for the pt paid amount and added 2 decimal places to that display and the total, and moved things around to make room for the numbers.</div><div>Also, somehow the page setup was set to horizontal orientation and the print dialogue defaulted to 2 copies, but that might just be something on my end (though these are brand-new installs of FM9).</div><div>Also for some reason we can no longer save a print preview of the superbills (we have been hitting preview and then saving (to their files) a PDF of the superbill and then hitting the print button and printing it out for the billing company). Any idea why that's happening?</div><div>The prescription list seems to be sorted differently now, too. I don't see the logic in it any more.</div><div>There's also some weirdness with the dates logged in the Rxs. On several Rx written today (often on spaces left from old scripts) or refills, the date entered into the Rx log is a previous date, often the date of the last time that prescription was printed. Interestingly, the log still has them sorted by when I actually printed them (so even though a script I printed today has a date before some other things further down the log's list).</div><div>Also, there's this "Date" column in the Rx section that doesn't seem to relate to anything (it doesn't have the date of the Rxs I just printed today!). I'll go in and see what it's supposed to do. I didn't get vary far since I don't know what all the script-maker functions are.<br>I also turned off drag and drop text selection since it gets me in more trouble than it's worth (since dragging is a good way to get around in a note).</div><div>I'm also having trouble with all clients logging in with the same credentials (whatever the serving computer (mine) logs in as, so do all the others), but this may get fixed when I move it to a dedicated server.</div><div>The new find function (from pressing the button) while having a good warning now leaves the person in the list view which makes more work, but if cmd-F works just as well, it may not be a big deal</div><div>I had to re-designate the tabs to make the tab order for the Rx lines all in a row (24-30) in the Notes layout. Otherwise, hitting tab goes awry and you can't enter a bunch of Rx one after the other (like when putting in a new pt) without using the mouse.</div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>I would like to not have the Rx pad window show up (in back) every time I start a SOAP note, but it's not plain in the script. It'd also be good to have it clear the vitals/CC box when it puts them in a note.</div><div><br></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Dr. Malcolm Sickels MD</div><div>210 Little Lake Drive, Suite 10</div><div>Ann Arbor, MI 48103</div><div><a href="http://drsickels.com">http://drsickels.com</a></div><div>734-332-9936</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>
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