AVIMARK FALL 2004 RELEASE
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   11 Paw Prints Integration
AVImark now has the ability to export reminder and birthday information that can be used by PAWprint Reminders, a custom reminder printing service for veterinarians.

Within Work with…Hospital Setup … Reminders tab, you will see a drop-down box for selecting the appropriate printing organization. After selecting the PAWprint option, a Clinic ID is required. This ID will be a unique ID assigned by PAWprint. The information that is exported can be placed directly on the PAWprint FTP site or it can be saved to the AVImark folder. To have your information directly placed on PAWprint’s FTP site, simply check the Send via Internet option.

To export Reminder information for the PAWprint program, you will need to access the Work with … Reminders area. From within the reminder window you will need to select the Merge file option then select the PAWprint button. (The name of the file that will be created on your hard drive or placed on the PAWprint FTP site will default to the Clinic ID specified in Hospital Setup-the current date [A1234R-091004], but can be edited within this window.)

A utility called PAWprint.exe has been written to export Birthday information to be used by PAWprint. This utility allows you to select the birth month and species that you would like information exported for. This information can also be sent directly to PAWprint’s FTP site or can be exported to the drive of your choice.

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   12 Reviving Deleted Inventory and Treatment Categories
Categories that had been deleted from the Inventory and Treatment lists could previously only be revived by the use of a separate utility. Reviving these categories is now a built-in feature. Right-Click…Undelete from the category area of the Inventory and Treatment lists will display a window with all deleted categories.

By selecting a category, you will be able to view the codes that were associated with this category and have the option to undelete all associated codes or undelete only specific codes.

NOTE: Multiple categories can be undeleted simultaneously by using your spacebar to select those categories. Selecting specific codes with a category can be selected in the same manner.

Once you have your categories and/or codes selected, clicking the Undelete button will immediately revive those categories and all associated or selected codes.

NOTE: This ability will only be available to those users with System Wide Authority.

Originally suggested November 2003 by Patrice of the Allpet Hospital and Laser Surgery Center in Fort Wayne, IN.

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   13 Reviving Inventory and Treatment Codes
As with the reviving of Inventory and Treatment categories, the ability to revive deleted codes has also been available in the past in the form of a separate utility. This ability is also now built right into the program.

Reviving an Inventory or Treatment code can be done by highlighting a code and Right-Click…Undelete. From the Deleted Treatment Maintenance or Deleted Inventory Maintenance window, you can see all of the codes that have been deleted, their Last Sold date, their prices, and their categories. Select the code(s) that you would like to revive by using your spacebar, Right-Click…Select, or holding your left mouse button and highlighting all appropriate codes. Once the desired codes have been selected, click the Undelete button. The codes will be revived and immediately removed from the list.

NOTE:

  1. When reviving a code that is associated with a deleted category, a new category will be created with the name of the original category but with the word Undeleted preceding the name.
  2. This ability will only be available to users with System Wide Authority.
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   14 Moving Inventory and Treatment Categories
The ability to move an entire Inventory category to your Treatment list and a Treatment category to your Inventory list was previously only available through a separate utility program. This ability is now available right from the Inventory and Treatment lists. A Right-Click on either an Inventory or Treatment category and selecting the Move to Treatments or Move to Inventory option will move the category with all associated codes to the opposite list.

NOTE: This ability will only be available to users with System Wide Authority

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   15 Internally Updating Inventory Sales
The ability to update monthly Inventory totals, which was previously only available through the use of a separate utility, is now available directly from the Inventory List. Work with…Update Sales gives the user the ability to take all sales and associate them with their appropriate month. (These sales totals can be viewed from the Change Item window, Sales tab.)

These monthly totals are automatically generated at the beginning of each month for the previous month, when the message concerning “Updating Inventory Statistics” is prompted and allowed to process. If these statistics are not allowed to process at the beginning of the month but for example, at the middle of the month, all sales for the previous month and the current month will be lumped together. Should this happen, running the Update Sales feature will reorganize these statistics to the appropriate month.

NOTE: This ability will only be available to users with System Wide Authority.

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   16 ePet Records Location Prompt
In order to prevent users from overlooking the assigning of a Locator number to a patient that is using the ePet Records service, we have added a new action code to the Inventory and Treatment lists. Adding the new action code of { will display a prompt when the selected Inventory or Treatment code is added to a patient’s Medical History.

The locator number that is entered into this prompt will update the ePetRecords ID field of the patient’s information

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   17 Income by Provider Report
Another feature that was previously only available via a separate utility program was the Income Analysis report. This report is now built directly into the Reports area of AVImark. Accessing Work with…Reports…Income by Provider will display a new tab to the right of the reports list containing the additional options for running this new report: Client Detail, Transaction Detail, and Include Inventory Sales.

NOTE:

  • When the Income by Provider report is not selected for printing, the Bottom Line information will always be displayed.
  • The options of Client Detail and Include Inventory Sales will default to being checked, just as the utility defaulted.

Running this report by Doctor, Date Range, Company, and Report Code is still available by using the doctor drop-down list, start and end date selections, company, and report code fields that already existed in this window.

NOTE: Protecting the printing of this report can be done by selecting the new Security feature of Print Income by Provider within the Reports tab or by protecting the existing features of Print End of Period Reports, Print Monthly End of Period Reports, or Print Yearly End of Period Reports.

Originally suggested March 2001 by Dr. Carlson of the Dunkirk Animal Clinic in Dunkirk, NY.

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   18 Tax By Area Report
The new Tax by Area report was especially created to assist clinics located in Ohio, Georgia, and Washington in complying with new state tax laws. With version 169, a new field of Zip was added to the Enter Medical History window so Kansas clinics would have a way to assign the appropriate tax rates by area. This feature has also been used by clinics in Ohio and Georgia, but both of these states required a report that would generate the total tax collected for each area.

This report is printed from the Work with…Reports area, and displays the date of the transaction, the client’s name and account number, along with the total amount of non-taxable services for that client and date, amount of taxable services, tax paid, and total of the invoice. This information will be printed for each area that was used in the Zip field of the Enter Medical History window.

Areas of the End of Period Reports window that can be used with this report, include Start and End dates, Company number, Report codes, client code, and site.

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   19 A/R by Provider
The need to print a report displaying the accounts receivable totals for each doctor can now be met from within the Work with…Statements…A/R Summary tab. By selecting a doctor in the new doctor drop-down list, you are able to print a report of the transaction details and total A/R associated to that particular doctor.

Clients who have a credit will not be listed on the individual doctors’ reports; only those clients that have an outstanding balance will be displayed. Selecting the Consolidated option within the doctor drop-down list, will print the original A/R Summary for all doctors and will include those clients with credits or balances.

Since taxes and service charges are never associated with a specific doctor, a separate report can be printed to display all taxes and service charges applied to clients’ accounts. A list of all clients who have had taxes and/or service charges applied to their accounts can be printing by selecting the doctor None from the drop-down list.

Selecting the option All Doctors will generate a report for all doctors including the reported tax/service charges collected.

NOTE: Payments that are taken on an account are still applied to the oldest unpaid transaction first.

Originally suggested August 2004 by Jenny at the Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital in Wheat Ridge, CO

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   20 Enhanced System Tables
Work with…System Tables is another area that has been enhanced. When accessing System Tables, you will see a new Find field. This Find field will display all entries that contain the specified characters or numbers within the Code and/or Description fields.

As with the enhanced Diagnosis list, the System Tables entries can also be sorted by clicking on the Title Bar of the column you wish to sort. The System Tables also contains speed-bar-buttons for adding a new entry and changing an existing entry.

Please contact the Product Development Department at suggest@avimark.net
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