EMR Datacenter™ Release Notes

Memory notification message;

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:51:00 GMT

The minimum memory notification message is now modified in support of physical RAM extension above 8GB.

Cumulative modular upgrades;

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:46:00 GMT

Various internal modular connectivity sockets are now distributed within EMR Datacenter to enhance cross platform connectivity.

Appointment edit window - new appointments;

admin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:24:00 GMT

When adding a new appointment, the "Remarks" field has been modified to automatically inherit the remarks from the most recently established appointment.

Insurance payer preference;

admin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:12:00 GMT

A preference for "Box 31: Include Provider State License #" has been added as a checkbox option. By default, this should not be checked as the NUCC.org specifications for Box 31 does not include this state license number because of the specificity of the NPI numbers appropriately listed.

Exceptions to the use of Box 31 still persist. This option provides this ability to override the factory default NUCC.org specifications for the CMS-1500 08/05 form.

Appointment Reminders and Visitometer;

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:24:00 GMT

These routines have been made more strict to provide error handling and notification for invalid or excessive dates caused by typographical errors.

Claim attachment MyEMR notes: multi-facility printing

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:57:00 GMT

This has been modified to examine the local site folder for the ClaimAttachment.rtf prior to the ..\Common\Documents folder.

Statement text file output;

admin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:41:00 GMT

The patient statement application has been modified to produce a Statement.txt file within the site folder of the currently active site, for EDI processing availability.

Provider name & number aliases;

admin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:13:00 GMT

The provider catalog and insurance processing routines have been amended to include alias values for provider number and provider names, in enhanced support for multi-facility and multi-organization insurance billing.

MyEMR modality and EMR Datacenter macros;

admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:49:00 GMT

The treatment plan modalities customization from within MyEMR's Tools->Customize->Plan->Modalities window has been modified so that there is strict coordination between the visibility of MyEMR modalities and the EMR Datacenter macros.

Suppressing the visbility of a MyEMR modality will suppress the corresponding macro in EMR Datacenter.

Choosing "Retrieve Deleted" in the customize area of MyEMR will recover all invisible (psuedo-deleted) modalities and macros.

Insurance: Line item posting print preferences;

admin — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:53:00 GMT

In User Preferences, on the Insurance tab, the preference has been added to show or hide line item entries that have been paid or otherwise have $0.00 outstanding for that line item.

Payer number overrides;

admin — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:17:00 GMT

Additional logic has been added for truncating soft carriage returns and leading spaces.

Medicaid preferences;

admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:28:00 GMT

Preferences have been added for Box 32 to accomadate Medicaid locality preferences.

Time zone offset;

admin — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:37:00 GMT

The front desk window and appointment book are modified to consider time zone offsets on a per user basis.

Payer ID field length in payer catalog;

admin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:14:00 GMT

This field has been expanded from 5 to 10 characters, in consideration of particular payers who require metatag data appended to the payer ID.

Insurance payer overrides;

admin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:11:00 GMT

The preference for box 30 to be blank has been implemented in the "provider/payer overrides" in the payer catalog. The default setting is to print the amount due in box 30. The checkbox in the overrides section causes box 30 to be blank.

This is effective for the CMS-1500 08/05 form only. It is not necessary for electronic billing.