[MEDITECH-L] ?Report Question on no-fragment fragment

I've done this once in a simple format, but now I'm trying it with a more complex arrangement and need help: I have an ADM.PAT report into which I pull info from, respectively, NUR.PC.WORK (nur.int.documented.activity, date.doc index), OE.ORD (oe.order, ords.by.cat.and.patient index), and BAR.P

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Magic 5.5; lab turn around report request

Joyce - Here's one our LAB IS person did some years ago. I checked on usage, and the last time anyone here used it was in Nov of '04, but the report should still be good. Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. Emporia, KS 66801 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 620-343-6800 x 1130

[MEDITECH-L] HDMS Modem Bank Available

We have discontinued use of our HDMS Modem bank. It has served us well but we have outgrown it. We will discard it if no one wants it, but would like to offer it gratis to anyone willing to cover freight. It consists of the following: 1 ea Microcom Case with 15 slots. Rack-mountable. Size: 12

[MEDITECH-L] RE: IP Addresses

Yes, use DHCP. The thing you want to do is insure that the Meditech name for each PC matches its Windows name. Leave blank the entry for the IP address (Meditech will match the name up and bring in the address). From: meditech-l@mtusers.com on behalf of Pawele

[MEDITECH-L] MOX-to-Outlook Question

We are Magic 5.61; I know that it is possible to set things up so that MOX email is sent to Outlook for everyone. My question is whether it is possible to do this for individual users? If so, guidance in the direction of useful instructions would be greatly appreciated. Douglas B. McGaw Newm

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Simple NPR Line Condition Question

Dave, I've not done this, but if I were, I would first assume that you're listing the @user out of the MIS.DIST.GROUP database - either as a multiple or as a detail line if you're in the mis.dist.group.users segment. @user points to the MIS.USER dictionary, so you can simply print the supervi

Re: [MEDITECH-L] SKIP ATTRIBUTE NEEDED

Troy - Assuming the line(s) in question contain a variable that may or may not be nil, I would recommend a line check thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the variable is non-nil, the line will print; if it is nil, then it won't. Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. Empori

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Mathematical Rounding in NPR

My recommendation: Take the numbers that you get in 2 decimals and use a computed variable to recompute them. You'll need to add .05 to adust for rounding up and then show only the 1 decimal number. Let's say you have @variable that produces 0.49; you'll want to do this to it: xx.var1 DAT=DEC1

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Horizontal Multiples

Allison - The standard report - and presumably yours - is written in the segment mis.employer. The insurances are in a child segment mis.emplr.dict.insurances. Easy enough to list them one under the other in a multiple, but if you want them side-by-side, you'll have to use computed variables. Le

Re: [MEDITECH-L] npr question

Stephanie - If you need the MRI.DRC fields, have you considered writing the report in MRI.PAT? Either way, you should be able to get those fields into a report - perhaps via a fragment if you're coming from ABS.PAT. Douglas B. McGaw IS Coordinator Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. E

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Print On Default for NPR Custom Reports

Jim - I remember tackling this one years ago to no avail. I don't think there is a way to "default in" the default printer, but - should you find a useful answer - you should shout it out to the L. (There are some good reasons NOT to allow a default, not the least of which is the tendency of user

[MEDITECH-L] ?UB04 Maryland Submission Question

I think I may know what to do here, since we already have a report that sends data in the proper UB92 format, but - in the interest of not reinventing the wheel - does anyone out there have an NPR report that they use to generate UB04 data for the Maryland QI Project? (Just for comparison purposes

Re: [MEDITECH-L] NPR report

Not sure on the number of xx variables, but I do know you cannot use more than 240 detail lines in one report. (Found that out the other day while trying to expand the CMC/Maryland submission report to accommodate the UB04 - had to write a fragment to call in the extra detail lines.) I like Joe C

Re: [MEDITECH-L] NPR OE Transcription Reports

I've not done this, but - were I to do so - I would probably set up an IF-THEN counter on the detail line. Let's assume the variable you're printing is called @line and that it sometimes has nothing in it. I'm not going to assume it's always nil, but rather that it can be "less than 0". I would

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Report writer access

We do have a couple of people outside of IS who can write reports (and one who actually does so), but we are very careful to insure that all new reports are submitted to IS for inclusion in the database we keep on them and so that we can get approval on them from our security committee. Such acces

Re: [MEDITECH-L] UBO4

There's been a lot of discussion on this thread, and - though we use Dell printers - we had to suck it in and get an HP 4250 for this purpose, as so many others have done. The HP allows for resetting the margins in ways not possible on the Dell. Thanks, Medicare... Douglas B. McGaw IS Coordina

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Faxing Solutions

We use FA and have had good success. I'm unclear on the issue raised by Damian, but I'm wondering if it isn't something that would respond to FA's product "Data Express". We don't yet have Data Express, but I'm working on it... Douglas B. McGaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] 620-343-6800 x 1130 fax: 620-3

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Faxing Solutions

Dee is correct. Smart Route has proven to be a great boon in the auto faxing department. We currently have it set up in our RAD and LAB. Those interested in cost can check with FA, but I believe it runs to $2500 per route, plus implementation. Caution: If you go with Smart Route, have a person

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Looking for a ELF chip vendor

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Odd as it sounds, you should contact VMP Mortgage Solutions. The name I have listed is: Katie Thelan at 800-982-6862 Douglas B. Mc

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Press Ganey

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Here's what we are using for P-G... (see attached files - one main report under ABS.PAT and one fragment under ADM.PAT.) Note that

[MEDITECH-L] Exitcare Question

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We now have Exitcare, and are wanting to set things up so that each registration is automatically fed over to Exitcare. We've done

RE: [MEDITECH-L] TCP/IP Term Server

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Roger -- We have made the conversion from 3Com 2500 Magic servers to 3Com 2600 TCP/IP servers for our terminals and serial printers.

RE: [MEDITECH-L] press-ganey npr

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Try this one. You'll have to make a change in the hard-coded facility number in field 1, and check the macro for other needed chang

RE: [MEDITECH-L] TOTALING AN NPR REPORT

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == That should be an easy one... If you tell the report to not print the detail line, you should get only the trailer region for the r

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Off-Topic: Continued : Meditech Talk?

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I looked at it. The web site's vision seems to be OK, but to work, we'd have to get all or most of the "L-ers" to use it instead of

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Z.date.sub across Mulitple Modules

Charlece – In the example you give, if you’re working out of the SCH.APPT DPM, it should work, since SCH can see info from ADM.  In other cases, where you don’t have that close relationship between DPM’s, you can always run a fragment, bring in an /R.FRAG.VAL[“”] variable, and compute w

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Naming Convention

We have a few such people here who have multiple jobs with different requirements. We do have multiple logons for them. The one thing we do is to disable the send/receive MOX messages for all but one of the logons, so users don't have confusion about which Jane Doe they're sending a message to.

RE: [MEDITECH-L] NPR help please

Jeanne – I think the attached report may have the information you want.   -Doug McGaw Newman Regional Health   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeanne Cameron Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:12 PM To: Meditech L Subject: [MEDITECH-L] NPR help pl

RE: [MEDITECH-L] SCH Patient Count-CMG

Charlece – You only need to set up a Key field based on the patient (I usually home in on the acct.no to avoid possible duplication in names.)  Then do a line check on that HK (or TK) region as follows: LC=1+CNT^CNT,1 (if you want the line to print), or LC=1+CNT^CNT,”” (if you don’t want

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Smart route faxing using Forward Advantage

We have implemented Forward Advantage and use Smart Route with NPR Lab and $T Rad. The tests ran well and we are now in the process of updating the FA database. The implementation, however, is very new, so I cannot speak to a long history of success. Yet. A cautionary note: FA has excellent

RE: [MEDITECH-L] NPR-RW Dynamically generate multiple Detail lines

Maybe I'm missing something here, but wouldn't it be possible to set it up with standard multiple lines and then put a NL=NO on the first line check and not the last one? I've never tried it, but it seems logical that the job information would then appear in a manner similar to the following: "DO

RE: [MEDITECH-L] MM Statistics NPR Reports - Need Help

Gail - If I read you correctly, you are looking for 5 reports. The biggest issue I faced when first learning RW was to identify the correct DPM segments to use. I think this is your current dilemma. I'm going to have to guess on a lot of this: 1. Stockouts (OHQ in MAIN =0) - total number for th

RE: [MEDITECH-L] MIS Device Audit

Donna - I've not tried to tackle the unifying code referenced by Joe Cocuzzo (below), but I do have some reports that work well for the segment to which you are logged. What I do is have a small menu attached to a DPM on each of our segments and run the report from each of the segments separately

RE: [MEDITECH-L] NPR Help Please! - queries in an assessment

Charlotte, If I understand your need, the solution is not hard at all... Here I will assume you are writing the report out of ADM.PAT and accessing NUR queries. If the assumption is incorrect, it should be easy to transpose the logic: Set up either a field or - if the selection will be lengthy -

RE: [MEDITECH-L] MOX - New Federal Rules

It's funky on my end too. I understand that there are some problems (unspecified) that Gil's working on. Hope it clears up soon. Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. Emporia, KS 66801 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 620-343-6800 x 1130 fax: 620-340-6799 -Original Message-

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Default location into report Select field - MAGICreport

Brian - I have one report where I use the the user's location as an automatic select. It looks like this: xx.checkEQ 1 xx.check DAT=PINT LEN=1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]@location,@.logical.device] 1} Hope it helps Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. Emporia, KS 6

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute

VAL=%Z.date.sub(@newer.date,@older.date) Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. Emporia, KS 66801 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 620-343-6800 x 1130 fax: 620-340-6799 From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jen

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Managing the volume of custom NPR Reports

The first thing in managing reports is to centralize the flow of information. At our facility, I write most - but not all - of the reports. Those others who also do reports know that I need to know when a new report is added (and those others amount to only 2 or 3). They generally print to my pr

[MEDITECH-L] RE: NPR - How to find Data in a Dictionary that Does NOT Exist

Marc, In that case, I would work out of the mis.doctor segment (the main one), and set up a macro to review all the pins for each doctor via a DO loop, looking for the one you want. It would be something like this: xx.select DAT=PINT LEN=1 VAL=%MIS.DOC.DICT.zcus.name.of.report.M.select(mnemonic

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Migrating from Meditech Magic to Meditech ClientServer

We're not (yet) making the transition, but I have to ask Why? Magic is more stable, has many features not available in C/S, takes up less real estate, takes fewer people to support, costs much less when hardware is taken into account, and does not require weekly reboots. Yes, I know there are

[MEDITECH-L] Solicitinb ABS Peer Group Submissions for MUSE

As ABS Peer Group Leader, I am looking for some show & tell presentations in the 5-15 minute range for International MUSE in May. Anyone with resolutions to difficult problems or other useful information to share is encouraged to contact me. Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12t

RE: [MEDITECH-L] EDM.PAT npr report

I'm guessing that you have those selects in an "and" rather than "or" condition. Assuming they are select criteria # 1, 2 and 3, the bottom line on page 2 should read: C1!C2!C3 That says to select either condition 1, 2 or 3 (rather than all of them) Just a note: When I write multiple conditions

RE: [MEDITECH-L] What's wrong with a dash and FTP

Doug - No idea why it's happening, but one workaround I would try is to insert a decode into the variable: "filename"_D(45)_"1.txt" (45 is the ASCII code for dash). Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. Emporia, KS 66801 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 620-343-6800 x 1130 fax:

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Running multiple NPR reports from one prompt

I've never tried this, but it strikes me that, if you set up one report as the "master" and all the others as fragments of that report (run in the trailer region), you ought to be able to get what you're looking for. If you want to select from various reports, you'd have to set up a select vari

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Report of all routines, all users?

I tried to tackle this one years ago by writing a report (I think out of NPR.MENU) that would show the routines on a given menu. It would then check and - if the routine were actually a submenu - it would run a fragment similar to the first. Then, if there were submenus on this, it would do it ag

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Magic NPR Select Field To Enter Free Text Message

If I were to do what I think you're describing, I would put a computed text field on page 2 as an IG variable: xx.variable.name DAT=FREE LEN=20 VAL=1 (that VAL statement is simply a placeholder value) Then I would create another computed field: xx.header thus: xx.header DAT=FREE LEN=20

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Updated Final BAR report

Brandon, I haven't taken the time to look at the report, but - when I'm writing out of BAR - I always use an index. My usual index is either the bar.acct.adm.ser.date.index or the bar.acct.discharge.date.index. Even when writing a report that may not depend on one of these indexes, I have add

RE: [MEDITECH-L] simle question on NPR Macro

If you have that section after [""^AMT,] on more than one line, that's your problem. EVERY line in a macro subroutine except the last one needs to end in a comma or semi-colon. Moreover, the comma or semi-colon must be a logical part of the argument. Either break up your IF statement into shorte

RE: [MEDITECH-L] random SSN report for random drug screen

Brandon - try this report. I recently had a similar request and this was the response. The macro contains the randomization logic: Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. Emporia, KS 66801 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 620-343-6800 x 1130 fax: 620-340-6799 _

[MEDITECH-L] RE: Looking for a nursing census report that pulls back for more than 60 days.

Kim - I am attaching the Retro Census we use, but you're correct... After ADM has purged, you need to use ABS to get what you want. You may be able to adapt this report. Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. Emporia, KS 66801 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 620-343-6800 x 1130

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Can Clinical Analyst Report to Nursing Dept.?

IT Department. The only way it could work otherwise is for the NUR Dept be willing to relinquish 100% of this person's time to her/his duties as Clinical Analyst, and to provide office space for same. Harsh experience shows that NUR dept's tend to use the nursing skills of their employees first a

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Magic NPR help needed in B/AR

Renee... Are you using the possessive field @txn.procedure's.chg.cat? That's where you need to start. If your select criteria are long-winded, you'll need to put them into a macro and select from there: Computed variable "xx.select" with VAL=%BAR.PAT.zcus.name.of.report.M.select(@account,@txn.cla

RE: [MEDITECH-L] UB04 print edge to edge printer required

It's the LJ 4250, not the 5250 (which doesn't exist). From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JEAN GOODMAN Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:23 PM To: meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: [MEDITECH-L] UB04 print edge to edge printer required

RE: [MEDITECH-L] NPR - Meditech and ARRAY NPR Report - FRAGMENT ISSUE

Marc - You seem to have forgotten your Hospital's mnemonic in this line: LC=%Z.rw.fragment("ORRW.ACT.CASE.zcus.admitted.pt.with.surgery.frag.R"), "" It should read something like: LC=%Z.rw.fragment("ORRW.ACT.CASE.zcus.admitted.pt.with.surgery.frag.R"," ORRW.XYZ"),"" Where the XYZ is replaced by yo

[MEDITECH-L] NPR Question - Creating Key field from Query response in another DPM

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Here's one that I've never had occasion to try previously Any assistance is greatly appreciated. We have a report in EDM.PAT t

RE: [MEDITECH-L] LABEL FORMATTING

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == The short answer is yes. You'd have to use macro coding to format the line spacing, but what I'd do is: 1. Set up the detail range

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Suppressing detail using computed fields forcalculations

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == What I've done in cases like this is to go ahead and suppress the detail line(s), but set up the calculations in the line check rath

RE: [MEDITECH-L] How to capture a comment field in an NPR report

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == What segment are you writing this in? lab.b.unit.main? If so, and if you put only one line for the comment on the picture, you'll

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Keeping your servers cool

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Funny you should ask... We have just completed a move to a newly configured (and larger) room across the hall from our old, overheat

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Custom NPR Report for LAB

. Emporia, KS 66801 Voice: 620-343-6800 x 1130 Fax: 620-340-6133 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: McGaw, Douglas Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:47 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; MEDITECH-L Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Custom NPR Report for LAB Marlene - I've never

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Custom NPR Report for LAB

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Marlene - I've never done this, but it seemed simple, and it was. In about 10 minutes, I was able to put together this report that

[MEDITECH-L] ?Looking for Report that lists charge procedures NOT used in 5 years

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Our accounting dept presented me with a "simple" request: List all charge procedures not used in 5 years. The idea is logical and

[MEDITECH-L] !RE: ?Looking for Report that lists charge procedures NOT used in 5 years

: 620-340-6133 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message----- From: McGaw, Douglas Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:03 AM To: meditech-l@mtusers.com Subject: ?Looking for Report that lists charge procedures NOT used in 5 years Our accounting dept presented me with a "simple"

[MEDITECH-L] RE: !RE: ?Looking for Report that lists charge procedures NOT used in 5 years

Health 1201 W. 12th Ave. Emporia, KS 66801 Voice: 620-343-6800 x 1130 Fax: 620-340-6133 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McGaw, Douglas Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11:14 AM To: meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject

[MEDITECH-L] MAGIC NPR: Formatting Internal Dates for Selection

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == RE: Paul MacDonald's query below, I was having a similar conundrum, but was able finally to figure out that @time.queued yielded a n

RE: [MEDITECH-L] NPR select for two values

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == David --- The principle is simple; you create a computed variable (or line check) to look for specific combinations. Here would b

[MEDITECH-L] ?Price Increase Report

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Happy Independence Day to all In the interest of not reinventing the wheel, here's what I need and am hoping someone out there

RE: [MEDITECH-L] NPR Report Writer Documentation

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == When you have the window open to the screen you want to copy, hit the Alt-PrtScrn key combination, and that will save the picture to

RE: [MEDITECH-L] field delimiter help

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Tab is ASCII code 009. Just FYI: I have one tab-delimited report that doesn't use delimiters. Instead, I just placed the info on t

[MEDITECH-L] Western Regional MUSE: NPR Peer Group

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == As NPR Peer Group leader for this years' Western Regional MUSE in San Francisco, I am looking for a few good people to contribute 5-

[MEDITECH-L] NPR Question on printing device name

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I thought I was sure that this could be done, but the Meditech line is "you can't do it." I am interested in printing the device na

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Laser Report Printer Suggestions

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == As a hospital on a contract with a buying group that uses Dell, we had the issue of continuing with HP printers (not on the Dell lis

[MEDITECH-L] Sending automatic notification of OE orders

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I have a task in with Meditech on this, but want to see if anyone else has a take on it. I've been requested to write a report that

[MEDITECH-L] On Electronic Faxing

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I've seen a number of queries on this list regarding faxing solutions that are compatible with Meditech. Allow me to relate our exp