- Avera McGreevy going live with LSS 5.6 in June
- Avera Brookings goind live with LSS 5.6 in July
- Avera Worthington getting Meditech lab in April
Avera Training Blog Meditech 5.6
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
LSS 5.6 Schedule
The following are tentative dates for various events in the Avera LSS world:
The Players
Meditech
LSS Data Systems
LSS Data Systems develops administrative, financial and clinical software to meet the needs of virtually every major type of physician practice and specialty. Used by hospitals, health care networks, integrated delivery networks, clinics, practice groups and other health care enterprises, LSS is the Physician
EHR and Practice Management vendor of choice for MEDITECH facilities across the country and around the world.
DrFirst
For over a decade, DrFirst has been a pioneer in the health IT (HIT) industry, becoming the leader in standalone electronic prescribing (e-prescribing). DrFirst was the first company to establish connections to both RxHub and Surescripts, the first to systematically provide e-prescribing services for EHR vendors, the first to provide medication history and electronic discharge prescribing for hospitals, and the first to electronically transmit prescriptions for controlled substances under a DEA waiver.
DrFirst’s client base includes major health plans, academic medical sites, health systems, hospitals, and small practice providers in all 50 states. DrFirst strives to improve provider access to high quality, affordable healthcare technology in order to create connected communities and true continuity of care across the nation.
Zynx
Medical Information Technology, Inc., commonly known as MEDITECH, is a privately held health care software and services company. Founded in 1969, MEDITECH provides software and services for managing hospitals, ambulatory care centers, doctors' offices, long-term care facilities, nursing homes, and home health care agencies. The company's software includes applications for patient identification and scheduling, patient care management, clinical information management, long-term and ambulatory care, behavioral health, and financial and reimbursement management. MEDITECH is headquartered in Massachusetts Canada United Kingdom South Africa Australia Latin America , Mexico Spain
LSS Data Systems
LSS Data Systems develops administrative, financial and clinical software to meet the needs of virtually every major type of physician practice and specialty. Used by hospitals, health care networks, integrated delivery networks, clinics, practice groups and other health care enterprises, LSS is the Physician
EHR and Practice Management vendor of choice for MEDITECH facilities across the country and around the world.DrFirst
For over a decade, DrFirst has been a pioneer in the health IT (HIT) industry, becoming the leader in standalone electronic prescribing (e-prescribing). DrFirst was the first company to establish connections to both RxHub and Surescripts, the first to systematically provide e-prescribing services for EHR vendors, the first to provide medication history and electronic discharge prescribing for hospitals, and the first to electronically transmit prescriptions for controlled substances under a DEA waiver.
DrFirst’s client base includes major health plans, academic medical sites, health systems, hospitals, and small practice providers in all 50 states. DrFirst strives to improve provider access to high quality, affordable healthcare technology in order to create connected communities and true continuity of care across the nation.
THE DRFIRST DIFFERENCE
- DrFirst is the most decorated prescription management software vendor, having earned over 12 awards, certifications, industry accolades, state medical society endorsements , and earning ISO certification
- Integration into the exclusive AMA Web-based Portal
- DrFirst has a mature product, created by doctors for doctors with many user influenced enhancements, and is scalable from 1 to 3,000+ provider settings
- DrFirst is the vendor of choice for over 100 hospitals, health systems, and major health plans
- DrFirst provides a proven, successful migration path to a broad health IT strategy through a stepping stone approach, starting with standalone e-prescribing and offering diverse, seamless, migration paths to over 100 EMR/EHR and other health IT vendors
- DrFirst offers single-sign-on capabilities for e-prescribing portal integrations
- DrFirst allows large practice groups, and major health systems to share patient data within the community through its unique enterprise set up
- DrFirst Certification is the elite choice for health IT vendors integrating e-prescribing into their systems
- All of DrFirst’s technology solutions are made by doctors for doctors.
Zynx
Zynx Health, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, is the market leader in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions proven to measurably improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care. Thousands of hospital organizations and providers trust Zynx Health clinical evidence, order sets, plans of care, clinical decision rules, quality forecasters, and practice guidelines to drive clinical improvements at the point of care and deploy the clinical decision support solutions required to demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health record systems. Collectively clients have customized and deployed more than 100,000 order sets and plans of care within Zynx Health's online solutions
Dragon: Customizing Philips SpeechMike Function Keys
If you have a Philips SpeechMike Pro Plus handset, you can custom program the keys on the handset to automatically enter text when you press specific keys. The keys at the top of the handset (EOL, Record, INS/OVR, F.RWD, PLAY/STOP, F.FWD) are preprogrammed with useful keys for Dragon.
The F1, F2, F3 and F4 keys are generally available for custom programming for the user.
For instance, the handset can be programmed so pressing the F1 key enters your PWM password.
Have the PWM software as the active software. This will allow the changes you make to the SpeechMike Driver apply to the PWM software.
Open up the SpeechMike Control application by selecting Start -> Programs -> SpeechMike Driver Utility -> Control Application.
This will open up a window display the SpeechMike control application. The available buttons are listed on the left and the assigned keystrokes on the right. Delete any previous keystrokes in the upper window using the delete button (looks like a red x).
1. Scroll down to the F1 button.
2. Double click on this entry. The Button Properties window should appear.
3. At the Keyboard Input line, select Text.
4. Type in your username and press Enter on the keyboard. The text should appear in the upper window.
5. At the Keyboard Input line, select Hotkey.
6. Press Enter on the keyboard, the word <Enter> should appear in the upper window below the your text.
7. At the Keyboard Input line, select Text again.
8 Type in your password and press Enter on the keyboard. The text should appear in the upper window below the <Enter> line.
9. At the Keyboard Input line, select Hotkey again.
10. Press Enter on the keyboard. <Enter> should appear in the upper window.
11. Press the Close button on the Button Properties window to save your entry.
12. Select File ->Save in the SpeechMike Control window to permanently save your entry.
13. Minimze the SpeechMike Control program. If you exit the program, the handset will stop functioning, however, you can restart the application program and the handset should resume functioning.
You should now be able to use the F1 key on the SpeechMike Pro Plus handset to enter in your password for PWM. You will have to edit these entries when your password changes in the future.
The F1, F2, F3 and F4 keys are generally available for custom programming for the user.
For instance, the handset can be programmed so pressing the F1 key enters your PWM password.
Have the PWM software as the active software. This will allow the changes you make to the SpeechMike Driver apply to the PWM software.
Open up the SpeechMike Control application by selecting Start -> Programs -> SpeechMike Driver Utility -> Control Application.
This will open up a window display the SpeechMike control application. The available buttons are listed on the left and the assigned keystrokes on the right. Delete any previous keystrokes in the upper window using the delete button (looks like a red x).
1. Scroll down to the F1 button.
2. Double click on this entry. The Button Properties window should appear.
3. At the Keyboard Input line, select Text.
4. Type in your username and press Enter on the keyboard. The text should appear in the upper window.
5. At the Keyboard Input line, select Hotkey.
6. Press Enter on the keyboard, the word <Enter> should appear in the upper window below the your text.
7. At the Keyboard Input line, select Text again.
8 Type in your password and press Enter on the keyboard. The text should appear in the upper window below the <Enter> line.
9. At the Keyboard Input line, select Hotkey again.
10. Press Enter on the keyboard. <Enter> should appear in the upper window.
11. Press the Close button on the Button Properties window to save your entry.
12. Select File ->Save in the SpeechMike Control window to permanently save your entry.
13. Minimze the SpeechMike Control program. If you exit the program, the handset will stop functioning, however, you can restart the application program and the handset should resume functioning.
You should now be able to use the F1 key on the SpeechMike Pro Plus handset to enter in your password for PWM. You will have to edit these entries when your password changes in the future.
Dragon: Turning Off Unused Voice Commands
There are a number of types of voice commands in Dragon that you may never use. For instance, there are voice commands in Dragon to do the following:
To turn off some of these commands:
On the Dragon menu, goto Tools->Options->Commands.
If you don't use voice commands to surf the internet, clear the "Enable commands in HTML windows" box if it is selected.
If you don't use voice commands to control mouse movements, clear the "Enable mouse motion commands" box if it is selected.
If you don't use voice commands to control word processing, click on the Natural Languange Commands button and clear the "Enable Natural Language Commands" box if it is selected.
If you don't use the word "Click" to control menus and controls, clear the "Require 'Click' to select menus and controls" box if it is selected.
If you don't use voice commands to manage E-mail and calenders, then clear the "Enable E-mail and Calender commands" box if it is selected.
Examine this menu and see if there are any other voice commands you will not use and then clear them.
After making these changes, you will have to exit and restart Dragon for the changes to take effect.
- Control mouse movement with voice commands
- Surf the internet with voice commands
- Control a word processor with voice commands
- Use the word "Click" to select menu items
To turn off some of these commands:
On the Dragon menu, goto Tools->Options->Commands.
If you don't use voice commands to surf the internet, clear the "Enable commands in HTML windows" box if it is selected.
If you don't use voice commands to control mouse movements, clear the "Enable mouse motion commands" box if it is selected.
If you don't use voice commands to control word processing, click on the Natural Languange Commands button and clear the "Enable Natural Language Commands" box if it is selected.
If you don't use the word "Click" to control menus and controls, clear the "Require 'Click' to select menus and controls" box if it is selected.
If you don't use voice commands to manage E-mail and calenders, then clear the "Enable E-mail and Calender commands" box if it is selected.
Examine this menu and see if there are any other voice commands you will not use and then clear them.
After making these changes, you will have to exit and restart Dragon for the changes to take effect.
How I Do It: Accessing Images from Other Facilities
Dr. Connie Morrison, MD
Monday, March 7, 2011
Setting Preferences
Overview: Allows setting of certain preferences for how the system works, for display of tasks, use of acknowledgement button, and alert for patient waiting.
Location: Footer button on the Desktop when viewing the Task List.
Buttons: Click the Preference footer button on the Desktop to open up the Preferences screen, then click on the Desktop toggle button to set the desk top preferences summarized below.
Location: Footer button on the Desktop when viewing the Task List.
Buttons: Click the Preference footer button on the Desktop to open up the Preferences screen, then click on the Desktop toggle button to set the desk top preferences summarized below.
- Desktop Default: Sets the type of tasks to be displayed on the desktop.
- All: All tasks will be displayed, including priority and non-priority task (i.e. priority is set to None).
- Priority: Only priority tasks will be displayed
- Use Acknowledge Button
- Yes: The user must manually click the Acknowledge footer button to acknowledge and remove a forwarded item on the Task List.
- No: The task will be automatically acknowledged when the Task Detail screen is viewed using the View Detail footer button followed by closing the Task Detail screen by clicking the List footer button to return to the Task List.
- Provider Indicator of Patient Waiting
- Header: An alert in red text stating "Patient Waiting" when the patient has been roomed and is waiting.
- Popup: A popup window appear with the patient's name when the patient has been roomed and is waiting.
- None: No alert is given for a patient roomed and waiting.
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