MediSoft Advanced

MediSoft Clinical

Minimum requirements

Listed below are the minimum system requirements needed to run MediSoft. If your system do not meet the recommended requirements, your performance could be affected. The program will run, but you may encounter lag:

Workstation System Requirements (Recommended): Intel Core 2 Duo processor or higher, 1GB of available hard disk space, 2 GB RAM, 16+ color display, Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista Business [will not work on Windows Home].

Server System Requirements (Recommended): Intel Core 2 Duo processor or higher, 10GB of available hard disk space, 2 GB of RAM per every 5 users [up to 4 GB for 25 users], 16+ color display, Windows 2003 Server, or higher. Compatible with Windows 2008. Total system requirements for both systems in a dedicated server: 8 GB RAM, RAID 5 with 2x 500 GB Hard Disks.

IMPORTANT FOR ALL SYSTEMS: WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND A VIDEO CARD WITH AT LEAST 256 MB RAM [512 RAM RECOMMENDED]. THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AS NEW VERSIONS OF MEDISOFT REQUIRE MORE RESOURCES. TYPICAL OF TODAYS APPLICATIONS, NOT HAVING A CARD WITH ITS OWN MEMORY WILL RESULT IN A SLOWER SYSTEM.

The requirements are for the MediSoft software only. If you decide to run additional services (for example, DNS or Active Directory) you will need to add additional CPUs and/or RAM. Please consult with Microsoft website for the minimum system requirements for each operating system.

MediSoft Advanced Single User

MediSoft Basic is a simple version with some of our Advanced features. At a lesser price, it will support sending your claims by paper or electronic. It will be able to keep track or your patients, diagnosis codes, and procedures. However, due to its simplicity, it will not keep track of the accounting and scheduling features that the Advanced and Network applications offer.

MediSoft comes standard with a scheduling engine [Office Hours] that replaces inefficient paper-based schedules with an electronic view of your office resources, making it quick and easy to schedule, move or cancel appointments. The add on Office Hours Professional makes scheduling even easier. The add on Office Hours Professional makes scheduling even easier.
MediSoft Advanced is designed to make your practice run more efficiently in the storage and retrieval of patient data and referral tracking. It enables you to quickly create multiple reports for practice management and aids in developing a sound financial ground, while still maintaining the primary focus of rendering quality healthcare services, by doing those chores that the computer does best—the repetitious handling of patient information in the various areas where the data is needed.

Reports

MediSoft Reports (formerly Focus Reports Standard) is a new module included in MediSoft Advanced and MediSoft Network Professional, giving MediSoft users over 228 standard reports. MediSoft Reports includes a wide variety of reports that give unparalleled information on managed care plans, in-depth financial information, marketing statistics, service facility financial information, templates to export data for use in other software and the ability to run custom reports.

MediSoft Reports Professional, available as an add-on module, (formerly Focus Reports Professional) offers 368 reports, charts and graphs. It also includes a report server that enables reports to run at scheduled times and be delivered via e-mail, as well as the ability to edit standard reports and create custom reports.

Accounting/Billing

The following new features and enhancements improve the accounting, billing and collection processes to make staff more efficient and help practices get paid faster:

• Missed Co-pay Remainder Statement—Missed co-payments are now reflected as part of a patient’s balance on the remainder statement.
• Write-off Option—A new filter enables users to limit a search to statements that have been sent a certain number of times when segmenting statements for small balance write-offs.
• Statement Management Remainder Balance—The Statement Management grid has been expanded to show the remainder balance, making it easy to identify accounts with balances.
• Collection List F7 Link—A hot-key link has been added to the Collection List so that when F7 is pressed the Quick Ledger opens for the patient that is attached to the selected collection list item.
• Deposit List Print Option—A detailed list of deposits can now be printed.

Usability

Current MediSoft customers that upgrade to MediSoft V19 will enjoy several new features and enhancements that improve the usability of the software:

• Chart Number Hot-key—All windows that contain a chart number selector now feature a hotkey that when pressed automatically populates the chart number for the past patient accessed.
• Default Printer Option—A menu item has been added to launch a new Default Printer dialog window to make it easier to change default printers.
• Improved Sorting—Various new sorting options display sorts in descending order, enable users to change sorting order by clicking on a column heading, and/or save the last sort on a per-workstation, per-login basis.
• Quick Ledger Edit Option—Quick Ledger now enables users to modify existing notes and create new ones.
• Rejection Code Hot-key—New/Edit hot-key functionality has been added to the Rejection Code field in the Apply Payments to Charges screen.

Tech Talk

Practice Management Software (PMS), such as MediSoft, often needs to interface with the outside world. There are a number of standards that are used:

• HL7 - Health Level Seven
  • HL7 and its members provide a framework (and related standards) for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information. v2.x of the standards, which support clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services, are the most commonly used in the world. HL7 is an international community of healthcare subject matter experts and information scientists collaborating to create standards for the exchange, management and integration of electronic healthcare information.
• ASC X12 ASC X12 (also known as ANSI ASC X12) is the official designation of the U.S. national standards body for the development and maintenance of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards.
• 270 — eligibility & benefit inquiry - Is the patient an insured of this payer?
• 271 — eligibility & benefit response (response to 270) - A yes or no response that the patient is insured.
• 276 — claims status inquiry (follows 837 submission)
• 277 — claim status response (response to 276)
• 835 — claim payment/advice (follows 837) - 837 medical claim is paid, and amount of payment and the patient's financial responsibility
• 837D — claim submission for dental claims
• 837I — claim submission for institutional claims
• 837P — claim submission for professional claims

How to order

To order any of MediSoft applications, visit our Catalog site. We accept, Visa, Master Card, Discover, and PayPal.