EXAMINATION / REQUEST REGISTRATION

• Automatic generation of request details and results entry pages
• New Doctors, Patients and Billpayers added directly from Registration screen
• Access by Accession / request Code, Patient or U.R. Number
• User defined accession number
• Indexed search windows
• Unlimited report "Copy to" Doctors, Locations, Wards
• Prompts for Bad Debts
• Prompts for "Special" patients
• Special "Species" codes
• Admission Register
• Unlimited Clinical Notes
• Up to 99 Procedures per request
• Unlimited Procedure database with search screens
• Comments requiring response can be enabled
• Alias redirection
• Result enquiry during registration
• Instant invoicing available
• Accounts automatically generated at registration (bulk billing, institutional and private)
• Telephone / fax / urgent results management
• Special time, date and type fields
• Allows entry of all sections' requests against one accession / request number
• Management of satellite clinics registering on central system

PATIENT MASTER INDEX

• All essential demographic information stored
• Bad debt risk patients marked
• Patients and billpayers can be added or edited on the fly
• Windowed indexes allow access via

  UR Code
  Unique patient code
  Whole or part name
  Birthdate / name
  Birthdate
  Birth year range
  Address
  Alias

• Extra details available for easy identification
• Patient Groups available
• Medicare / Repatriation / Workcare numbers etc
• Security warnings to limit access to data
• Patient merging facilities
• Blood group and antibody data displayed
• Medical imaging film bag details
• Long term medical details requiring acknowledgement
• Special comments requiring operator response
• Pregnancy status
• Automatic aliasing of patients
• Notepad for extra comments

PROCEDURE TRACKING

• On screen examination result status (immediate)
• I.D. by alphanumeric code at reception
• Examination Type may be subsumed in test procedure
• Bag Location tracking
• Groups of examinations may be tracked
• Barcodes can be included
• Multiple examinations per request
• Examination statistics available
• Request Code gives access to all request data

WORKLISTS

• On screen result status (immediate)
• Late lists (incomplete examinations)
• All validated or partially validated examinations
• Summaries of work in progress
• Summaries of daily work loadings
• Ordered by date
• Filter by Department, Procedure, Data entry status or Validation status

GENERAL DATA ENTRY

• Library of report layouts provided
• Templates tailored for each site
• Cursor movement in report entry is user-defined
• Screen displays reflect the printed output
• Special comments displayed before and during data entry
• Prompt to telephone / fax results
• Formula calculations available for every field
• Unlimited report and page length selection
• Patient demographics displayed on top of screen
• Each data field carries Medicare charging codes where required
• A "Must Enter" definition forces data entry to key fields
• Special patients require specific security levels to access
• Barcode readers enabled
• Field sensitive Glossaries
• Data entry filters
• Part reports may be truncated for printing but available on screen
• Macro / Library abbreviations may be edited by User
• Macros may be appended to each other on any line
• Function Key data entry
• All cursor keys work
• Current data entry screen highlighed

WORKSHEETS

• May be user-defined
• Can be re-printed
• Business graphics
• Clinical notes included
• List of other procedures included
• Special comments printed
• Multi-procedural worksheets available
• Multiple worksheet styles
• Results entered by worksheet code
• Data entry in same format as worksheet
• Existing data flagged for exceptions

GLOSSARIES & ABBREVIATIONS

• Unlimited glossaries
• Fifteen line translation
• Postcode included for addresses
• Department specific glossaries and sub-glossaries
• Items may be "clipped" for storage in Glossary
• "Restricted Glossaries" for special data entry points
• Pre-defined Function Key entry
• Help prompt bar on all screens

RESULTS ENTRY & REPORTING

• User defined reports
• Automatic generation at registration
• Accessible by patient, examination, code, date, doctor
• Confirmation Flag for double data entry available
• "Word" style word processing (see GEdit)
• Pre-defined data entry order
• Histories of all patients available by Function Key during data entry
• Transparent access to archive data by Function Key
• Special telephone / fax / urgent messages
• Macro library / abbreviations can be edited by user
• Macros may be appended to each other on any line
• Access by Department
• Special Doctor notes requiring operator response
• High security required (user defined) to edit validated results
• Field sensitive glossaries and data entry filters
• Ward reporting
• On screen reports status check at every menu
• Reported status displayed on screen
• Interim Reports
• A4 or A5 reports
• Colour enhancements
• Batch or single reporting from each terminal
• Batch printing queued for courier runs, etc
• Special "Client" warnings

MEDICAL VALIDATION

• Operator's name, terminal number, date and time recorded
• User defined messages to display status of report
• Security level access for validation
• On the fly validation available for high security users
• Review programs
• Batch validation
• Validation by worksheet
• Double entry of data if required
• Interim reports available

REPORT PRINTING

• Immediate or queued reporting
• Queues may have up to five auto-print times
• Up to 46 print queues may be defined
• Queues may be based on courier / ward runs
• Automatic direction to fax machine
• Ad hoc reporting
• Ward reports assemble data using pre-defined layouts
• Remote printing reporting
• Redirection of reports to different printer by Function Key
• System warning when printing incorrect
• Interim reports available
• Screen review of complex reports
• Automatic distribution of different report styles where specified
• Multiple masks downloaded to printers
• On-line result enquiry (see Webstro)
• Automatic result download (see AllTalk)