Release Notes Life Systems' Chiropractic Software users

ChiroSuite Version 14.1

Release Date: July 7, 2008
ChiroSuite:
NEW FEATURE - SQLExec Query Tool: Multiple queries may now be processed simultaneously. This requires that each query be separated by a semicolon (;). UPDATED - Appointment Book: Move Appointment: This feature has been modified to include a permission to allow overbooking a timeslot. Please contact your system administrator to enable this permission. NEW FEATURE - SmartPad User Defined Fields: This process has been modified to display custom captions for user defined fields if custom captions have been setup. The merge field does not reflect this change.
ChiroPad:
UPDATED - Subjective Window: Patient Comments is now titled Comments. The Comments field now supports drag and drop operations. UPDATED - Objective Window: Additional Information has been added to allow for documentation of other information that is not detailed in the Objective window. This field also support drag and drop operations. UPDATED - Documents Window: New Tab: Added options to Force Objective Additional Info and Suppress Objective Additional Info. The force option will always generate the most recently added additional information. The suppress option will always hide the information even if entered on the day the SOAP note is generated. UPDATED - Tools > Customizations: Diagnostic Imaging Report DIR Findings: A blank selection has been added to the Extended Detail Sets selection to allow the user to deselect an Extended Detail set if one was accidentally selected. NEW FEATURE - SOAP & Narrative Report Generation: Range Of Motion Sort Order: This preference is enabled under Tools > Settings > SOAP Notes. To setup the order, simply drag and drop items up or down to the desired location.
ChiroOffice:
NEW FEATURE - SigGem Color Support has been added. This new signature pad offers twice the resolution than the previous model. This new model now displays the current charges along with the transaction information. Patient Transactions: NEW FEATURE - A merge field for the signature pad message in preferences has been added titled < SigPad Message>. NEW FEATURE - CPT Dupe Check Preference: This new preference allows the user to enable or disable the duplicate CPT check with an option to check for duplicate CPTs with duplicate modifiers. Tools Settings > Preferences NEW FEATURE - All transaction related settings have been moved to a Transaction section. Reports > Financial Statistics NEW FEATURE - An option has been added to show or hide the Total Summary for all transactions in the system. This setting is stored so it is not necessary to keep resetting it. Catalogs Appointment Template NEW FEATURE - The Provider ID of the selected provider now displays to the right of the provider selection. Insurance Carriers CMS Tab > More Options UPDATED - The Claim Reprint and Box 1A options have been modified to allow for multiple selections to be made for greater flexibility of these options. Procedures NEW FEATURE - Procedure Units: This has been added for Services and Products to allow the user to specify a default for units per procedure. NEW FEATURE - Patient Phone Log Printing by Category: An option has been added to allow the sure to select which categories to print with the default being set to all categories. The current sort is now by category alphabetically and then by date.
ChiroSuite Version 14.0

Release Date: May 27, 2008
ChiroSuite:
NEW FEATURE - Updated database architecture using Microsoft Access 2003. NEW FEATURE - Appointment Book: Schedule Patient: Users can now schedule patient appointments without having to first open the patient's account. This new option is available through the right button click of the mouse when the mouse is hovered over the time of the desired appointment. NEW FEATURE - Appointment Book: Move Appointment: This feature replaces the pop menu item Move to new time or provider for today. This new functionality makes use of the new IntelliSchedule® Appointment Scheduler giving the user complete control over an appointment. This smart design employs AI algorithms to only display appointments with adequate available slots for the appointment being moved. As well, detection of what days the selected provider sees patients is done to ensure that appointments are not scheduled when a provider does not see patients. This includes blackout periods. NEW FEATURE - Front Desk Scheduled and Signed-In Lists The account type is now displayed in each list with the ability to sort the list by account type. NEW FEATURE - Preferences: General: The account type is now displayed in each list with the ability to sort the list by account type. An option has been added to re-enable progress note verification after it has been disabled. An option has been added for the Front Desk Chart Number Search Functionality to all the user to choose how the search should be done with the following options: Anywhere in the chart Where the chart begins with Where the chart ends with Where the chart is equal Added Ignore Patient Info Demographic Verification in ChiroPad option to only require Account Type, Provider, First Name, Last Name and Sex. NEW FEATURE - Patient General Title Verification: Added Do not show this message in the future to allow the user to choose to see or not to see this verification message. UPDATED - Patient General Referral Sources: The list of referrals now automatically refreshes after an edit to the list of referral sources. NEW FEATURE - Patient Statement and Late Notice Tracking: A log is now created in Patient Letters to track when statements and/or late notices are sent. The due date and due amount are also added to the log. NEW FEATURE - SOAP Note Batch Printing: A progress bar has been added to the bottom of the window to display the progress to the user. Additional error handling has been implemented to help guide the user when clicking the 'Edit' button. All buttons are disabled during the Export or Printing processes. A confirmation message has been added for the export and print functions to confirm with the user when all notes are selected to be exported or printed. The selected notes count is now displayed above the list of notes. NEW FEATURE - SmartPad Merge Fields: The following merge fields are now available - Employer Contact - If this field is used and there is no contact on file, the system defaults the merged text to 'Employer'. Provider NPI Provider Clinic NPI UPDATED - Tools > Reports: Missing Progress Notes Report - this report has been revised and now correctly displays all Dates of Service (DOS) that do not have corresponding SOAP notes per the selection criteria. The Avery label type for printing labels has been changed from 5690 to 5960 on all forms with an option to print labels. Income Referral Report - this report has been updated to eliminate instances where only Patient Referrals would display.
ChiroPad:
NEW FEATURE - Enhanced Documentation Engine: The SOAP and Narrative generation have been rewritten to produce SOAP notes and Narratives with better randomization and decreased generation time. NEW FEATURE - Complaint Status Speed Update: Updates the status of all complaints with the click of one button. If a complaint has a status of 'No SmarText' its status is not updated. NEW FEATURE - Last Note Generated: The subjective and documents windows now display the date and time the last note was generated for the patient. NEW FEATURE - Spirometer Lung Vital Capacity Exam: This exam has been added to the Physical Examinations form to capture pre and post adjustment findings. NEW FEATURE - Patient Health History: Usual childhood diseases has been renamed to Past diseases. Added Medications - Past to allow user to store past medications for a patient. Added 200 most common prescription drugs to Medications lists. Past Diseases (Previously titled Childhood Diseases) - Added 17 common ailments. Alcohol - Added 4 items. Exercise - Added 7 items. Smoking - Added 6 items. NEW FEATURE - Patient Exams - Range Of Motion: Added Hip ROM Table NEW FEATURE - Patient Visual Analog Pain Scale (VAS) - A History tab has been added to view previous pain scale results. UPDATED - Patient Exams - Range Of Motions: added normal values for Ankle, Knee, and Toe ROM Tables. UPDATED - Work Injury Form - Falling Tab: What body part of patient was impacted first? and Other body parts affected are now enabled. NEW Added checklist Patient Landed On. NEW Added Describe Additional Details text box to store other relevant information about the fall. UPDATED - SOAP Note Generation Subjective: Patient comments now generate only if entered the same day the note is generated. NEW Assessment and Plan: The {Patient} merge field is now supported for verbiage to be generated in the Assessment and Plan sections of the SOAP note. DIR Generation: All DIR reports created the same day the note is generated now generate into the SOAP note. UPDATED - SOAP Note Save Process: This process has been optimized for efficiency. UPDATED - Default Initials: This process has been updated to eliminate instances where the default initials would not load or save properly. UPDATED - Objective Window: The New Font Help button has been removed as its functionality is now handled by ChiroPad internally. Modified the selections of Subluxations, Fixations, and Adjustment Techniques for proper functionality between the three selections. Additional verbiage for each Subluxation listing for Occiput, Left Ilium, Right Ilium, Sacrum, and Coccyx has been added. UPDATED - Detail Sets for Subjective Complaints: The selection of Frequency, Severity, and Location is now limited to a single selection within each category. Aggravating and Relieving factors are now sorted alphabetically. UPDATED - Chiro for the Pocket PC Integration: Any related functionality for Chiro has been removed from this version. UPDATED - Patient Letters: This function has been changed to eliminate instances where a program error would occur and not generate a letter. UPDATED - Tools > Customizations: A processing window has been added to let the user know that work is being done in the background after making changes to customizations. The following customization tools have been rewritten for the new database: Subjective > Complaints Assessment > Pre-existing Contributions, Condition Status, Current Progress, and Resulting From Lead In's Plan > Modalities, Regions, Visit Status, and Templates (accessed through the previously listed windows) Objective - Spinal Examinations - Subluxations: Modified this window to properly load verbiage for all items and eliminate instances where the verbiage did not load correctly. Muscle Test Muscle Customization has been redesigned. Diagnostic Imaging Report NEW DIR Views: The user now has the ability to add new or edit existing views for use in the DIR window. NEW DIR Regions: The user now has the ability to add new or edit existing regions for use in the DIR window. NEW DIR Findings: Added the following: Normal 13 Non Spinal findings 5 spinal findings UPDATED - Narrative Report Generation: This function has been modified to include the following items from the Health History form: Past Surgeries tab Last Physician Last Chiropractor Past Illnesses tab Exercise Smoking Alcohol Medications - Past Work Restriction reports now properly print into Narrative reports. Referring Physician information now correctly populates into narratives. This requires that the referring physician information is set in the patient's insurance policy by clicking the 'Add' button in the Referring Physician section. Added support for Exam Type Initial/Current merge field. Added Support for Work Injury - Fall fields UPDATED - Documents Window: Removed the Note Options button and note options are now always visible. An option has been added to Force Patient Comments. This will generate the patient comments into the SOAP note even if the patient comments were entered in the past. UPDATED - Subjective Window: Previous patient comments no longer load into the current tab.
ChiroOffice:
NEW FEATURE - Procedure Catalog: Treatment Plans: A Units field has been added to expedite the processing of multiple quantities when transactions are processed. The max units have been increased from 10 to 100. Modalities marked as deleted in ChiroPad no longer display. NEW FEATURE - Tools > Letters: A Provider dropdown box has been added to allow the user to select which provider is sending the letter. NEW FEATURE - Ledger: An option has been added to the search window to sort the ledger in Ascending or Descending order by date. This is a computer specific setting and must be set on each machine. NEW FEATURE - Patient Open Process: For patients with expired insurance card information, a message is now displayed notifying the user that the insurance card has expired and under which policy. NEW FEATURE - Patient Transactions - Transaction Pre-Check: This new AI concept looks for duplication among the transactions being saved to eliminate claim denials. Transactions with no CPT codes or categorized as a Product, are not checked. NEW FEATURE - Patient Insurance Policies Window - Required Claim Information Verification: Verification rules have been implemented to ensure all required information to properly generate claims is entered. An option is available to not show the verification message. UPDATED - Telephone Log: The telephone log list has been modified to now display the date and time of the log. The height of each row has been increased to allow for easier viewing and "at a glance" functionality. UPDATED - Edit Receipt: Modified this window to eliminate instances where the amount of a line would incorrectly increase. Modified the save process for receipts that are associated with claims that could allow a user to post an amount greater than the amount due on a claim. UPDATED - Quantity On Hand (QOH) for Products: This functionality has been redesigned to properly calculate and manage the QOH for products. UPDATED - Claim Printing: This process has been updated to properly handle Carriers that have no address on file. If no City, State, and Zip exist for a Carrier, that part of the address line is left blank. Modified the size of the Signature and location it prints on the CMS-1500 (08-05) form for Box 31. NEW Option to Print Claim Number in Box 1A. This has been implemented for the CMS-1500 (08-05) form as well as the Internet Disk Image file. NEW Option to allow the user to specify that a claim should not be reprinted/resubmitted to a secondary carrier even when it is reassigned to the secondary insurance. This option is appropriate when Medicare is primary and automatically forwards claims to secondary carriers, so there is no need to submit the claim to the secondary. Modified the printing of Box 32b on the CMS-1500 (08-05) to consider the Box 32 Alternate option correctly. NEW Option to not print Box 32a and 32b when the coverage type is 'Medicare'. UPDATED - Post Insurance Window: Additional modifications have been made to ensure that transactions being saved have an amount greater than 0. The Date of Entry (DOE) is now forced to be the same for all items being saved when the save button is clicked. When posting to multiple claims, the DOE is modified to force each transaction associated with each claim to show on separate receipts. This makes each receipt unique to the claim it is associated with. All Line Item financial transactions now display the Date of Service (DOS) of the Line Item they belong to as well as the Line number of the Line Item. Global Posting: Claims may now be queued by simply clicking the checkbox in the Queue column for the selected claim. UPDATED - Tools > Insurance Manager > Pre-Billing: This tab now loads without having to click the Display button. This tab now stays up to date as changes are made during the pre-billing process which eliminates the need to keep clicking the Display button to view the remaining pre-billing items to be resolved. The pre-billing code has been modified to correctly address missing information in text fields. Pre-Billing Pop Up Window: The list now displays items missing with the corresponding tab on the form that those items are located on. The location of the window is now fixed to the bottom right corner of the program. The width of the window has been increased for easier readability. UPDATED - Claim Audit Process: This process has been modified to remove transactions with $0.00 amounts. UPDATED - Patient Transactions: Digital Travel Card Message: This message now only displays if the digital travel card was generated on the same day as the transactions. NEW FEATURE - Transaction Selection By ID: Double left clicking the ID field no performs the functionality of selecting a new procedure from the pick list. NEW FEATURE - Assigned Column Entry: This column now has the ability to be changed by double left clicking or typing Y or N, to be assigned or non-assigned, respectively.
Prior Release Notes Version 12 Versions 10 through 11.4