Print what you need, when you need it!
Printable View
This blog entry is intended to make you think about how much paper you generate in ChiroPulse365.
When talking to chiropractic offices it really amazes us how often the staff prints things from ChiroPulse that is really doesn’t need to be. Print today’s schedule, print the HCFA that you sent electronically, print a patient invoice you sent, print a SOAP, etc. Sure some things need printing (I.e. a patient walkout receipt they ask for) but much of what the average office prints is stuffed into a patient folders to take up space & quite often do nothing but collect dust.
ChiroPulse365 has a full “what you see is what you get” print preview. It can export to many computer electronic file formats and multi-page PDF portable document file. We’d like to urge your office to really start to consider the actual need of a paper printout before sending the preview to the printer.
While each of your offices has unique needs & requirements, we have a vested interest to have your patient data instantly retrievable, organized & reproducible for medical, legal & accounting purposes.
It is more useful, economical & less hurtful to the environment to backup your ChiroPulse365 data & keep some backups for historical purposes than it does to stuff patient files with printouts of the same data.
It is important to remember that all of the information in ChiroPulse can be extracted at any time after it is entered. If you previously printed it (& faxed/mailed it) or previewed it on screen it can be viewed again later right from ChiroPulse. If you regularly fax from your office, you should consider a multi-function printer where you can “print” directly to fax without using any paper. Likewise many offices use online fax sending services such as myfax.com or efax.com services which can eliminate phone lines & costs.
The SOAP Notes & Ledger reports you sent to an attorney… it’s all in your database ready to reprint any time. The invoice you sent to a patient for the 5th time… that is in Billing Invoice Log ready to print an exact copy or regenerate a new invoice with updated payments or interest.
Shown below is the Reporting System. In this example the “Accounting (Ledger)” report category is selected in 1 (left box). The actual report selected to print is highlighted in 2 (middle box). Note that in 3. (right box) Visits is highlighted as we limited visit date by filtering only for 5/1/2009. Simply double-click on an filter to set a value to limit what data will be printed. In this example when adding the “visits” filter the line item & global payments were filtered as well since this is a “subpayment” report that shows all transactions for the visit date.
print report system allows filtering to view only what data you want
When you press the Print button you will see a print preview window where you can read the printout onscreen without sending it to the printer. Use the top icon bar to print, export, refresh, turn pages (the document below is on page 1 of 2) & zoom in and out.
print preview window with top button bar to export & more.
Export with the 2nd icon (envelope with down arrow). Below you see the initial export selection. You can save to “disk” as a file or send the report to a program, fax, email (MAPI), etc.
export the report
Shown below is the expanded format type selection. There are several choices so experiment with whatever format works best for your needs.
select from several file types. Rich Text is useful for formatted word processing.
We’ll post more info on sending printouts directly to email attachments in the near future. ChiroPulse365 will also soon be featuring email & text message capability to email patient invoices, send appointment notices to the doctor or patent for example.
