NPR Training at Mass Bay Community College in Wellesley

If you are a Boston-area individual with a computer science background interested in NPR training, this may be of interest:

Joe Cocuzzo, our Vice President of NPR Services, is teaching a non-credit evening class in NPR Report writing (C/S platform). The plan is to offer a 10 week class, two evening sessions of 2 . . . → Read More: NPR Training at Mass Bay Community College in Wellesley

NPR Report Writing Tips : January 2012

NPR Tip: Stripping characters for a Download Report

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services

This month, we will show you an easy way to filter output in a download report to remove characters which will cause problems for the parsing of fields and records in the receiving system. A simple example would be . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips : January 2012

NPR Report Writing Tips : December 2011

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services

NPR Tip: Make “Program Call” macros rename automatically (MAGIC and Client/Server)

You may know that you can make a macro in a report that can be called as a program, rather than used as a block of code that is incorporated into your main report logic based . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips : December 2011

NPR Report Writing Tip: November 2011

Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services NPR Tip: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Changes to Log Patient Inclusion on Custom Reports (MAGIC and Client/Server)

The ARRA changes to MAGIC and Client/Server introduce a “Patient Audit” feature for custom (and standard) NPR reports. This month we will describe how the auditing feature works . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tip: November 2011

NPR Report Writing Tips: October 2011

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services

NPR Tip: Overcoming the 255 Character Limit to Browse to a Long URL from MAGIC

The MAGIC (and Client/Server) 255 character limit makes it difficult to handle a value that exceeds this length. A reasonably common example is a URL that exceeds 255 characters.

You can . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips: October 2011

NPR Report Writing Tips: September 2011

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services

NPR Tip: An Index for B/AR Comments (Client/Server or MAGIC)

One shortcoming of the MEDITECH HCIS is the lack of a complete activity index in B/AR. There is an activity index that includes all financial transactions (purged with batches in MAGIC, purged at 10 days . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips: September 2011

MUSE Event – Toronto, ON conference

Join us at the MUSE Event – Toronto, ON conference to learn more about:

Medication Reconciliation Patient Privacy Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Interoperability And Much More MUSE Event – Toronto, ON September 12 – 13, 2011 Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada Booth #24

Don’t miss this opportunity . . . → Read More: MUSE Event – Toronto, ON conference

NPR Report Writing Tips: August 2011

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services

NPR Tip: Date/Time Stamp with Seconds (Client/Server or MAGIC)

Recently, a vendor receiving two exports of billing data from a MEDITECH system requested a time stamp be included so that if data from the same account appeared in both files, they could pick the more . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips: August 2011

NPR Report Writing Tips: July 2011

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services

NPR Tip: Finding records with empty fields (Client/Server or MAGIC)

If you need to write an NPR report and find all records with no value (nil) in a field, you can often write a simple selection EQ nil. For example if you want to find . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips: July 2011

MUSE Handouts

All MUSE handouts from Iatric Systems Ed Session & Workshops are now available on the web site.

Ed Session – Interoperability — Are You Ready? Ken Hoffman, Instructor (zip) Ed Session – Mobile Madness – Steve Walker, Instructor (PDF) Ed Session – NPR Tips and Tricks – Fun with Printers, Files and Executables – . . . → Read More: MUSE Handouts