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

NPR Report Writing Tips: June 2011

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services

Formatting Phone Numbers (MAGIC or Client/Server)

In data export, you often get a specification that looks like this:

Field Length Patient’s home phone 15 Patient’s Street 30

Often, the party receiving the data has a very specific required format for a telephone number, which they don’t . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips: June 2011

NPR Report Writing Tips

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services

Avoiding Fragments (MAGIC this time. . . )

Last month we showed how to cross applications without using fragments in a Client/Server (C/S ) NPR report. This month it is MAGIC’s turn.

The “official” technique for crossing applications in an NPR report is to write another . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips

NPR Report Writing Tips

by Joe Cocuzzo, Iatric Systems Vice President – NPR Services

Avoiding Fragments (Client/Server Only) The “official” technique for crossing applications in an NPR report is to write another report as a fragment and call it via a utility program %Z.rw.fragment. The fragment then takes over and prints or puts some data in /R.FRAG.VAL that you . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips

2011 International MUSE: Educational Presentations

301 – Protecting Patient Privacy in an Ever Changing Environment Presenter:  James Lawson Organization: Iatric Systems, Inc.

302– MEDITECH 6.X Contracting – Legal Insight and Advice Presenter: William F. O’Toole, Jr. Organization: O’Toole Law Group

303 – NPR Tips and Tricks – Fun with Printers, Files and Executables Presenter: Joe Cocuzzo Organization: Iatric System

. . . → Read More: 2011 International MUSE: Educational Presentations

Meditech-L: Need Help with NPR Report Calculate date to select by

%Z.day.from.date(@.today) = DOW 1-7

%Z.date.add(DATE,0-N) will subtract N days from any date and give you the date.

Combine these in a start macro to put your date range into /FROM and /THRU and then use those in your selections.

If “a whole week from two weeks ago” means back up to the current week’s . . . → Read More: Meditech-L: Need Help with NPR Report Calculate date to select by

January 2011 NPR Report Writing Tips

by Joe Cocuzzo, Iatric Systems Vice President of NPR Services

Type-Ahead lookup (MAGIC Only)

It is possible to create a lookup field on an NPR report that exploits a “type-ahead” Z program available in MEDITECH MAGIC. The program works in both the 3.x and 4.x versions of the MEDITECH Remote Workstation. You get <OK> . . . → Read More: January 2011 NPR Report Writing Tips

Meditech-L: Get rid of trailing spaces in NPR fields

From Joe Cocuzzo, Iatric Systems VP of NPR Services: If you just have to do your output in the picture, do the following:

Add footnotes:

SFF NO EFF NO PFF NO (if you are C/S) FD 124

Add a DAT=INT to every field (standard or computed)

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