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Why AltaPoint? |
"Our
transition from paper to AltaPoint
EMR was a painless shot in the arm.
The uncluttered layout, accessible
tabs, and sensible chart flow made
us zip through office visits with a
few clicks. We're happy."
- Edgardo Hidalgo, MD
Pediatrics
"AltaPoint is
a leader, providing great
alternatives for practices on a
budget."
- Cyndee Weston, President
American Medical Billing
Association
"We have been
using AltaPoint for our ED Physician
Group's coding and billing needs for
over two years now and we remain
enthusiastic fans. We recently
upgraded to the client-server
version to keep up with our
expanding needs and never considered
using anything but AltaPoint."
- Norman Dinkins, Office Manager
Precision Medical Management
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AltaPoint is a true 32-bit program designed
from the ground up to take full advantage of
the power of Windows 98, Windows 2000,
Windows NT and XP.
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Feature
List
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General Features:
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Native
multi-platform support (Windows, Mac, Linux)
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Backup data
without making others exit the program. Program
does not require exclusive use of the data files
to perform a backup.
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New ability to
perform an inventory update, update a fee
schedule and other functions without making
others exit the program.
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Enhanced
multi-user features allowing concurrent editing
of the same record with Smart Field updating.
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The program
will either auto-number the patients, guarantor,
insurance, and addresses with numerical coding
or alphanumeric coding.
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New Edit
buttons on record screens that prevent
accidental editing of forms.
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New Accept
buttons throughout the edit forms making it more
obvious in the program when you are saving
changes.
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Now mark any
patient, guarantor, procedure code or address
file record, as “inactive.” The code will not
appear in the search list or as you scroll
through the details unless you choose to see the
inactive records. This feature is very important
for the referential integrity of the system.
Codes that have been created and used in the
system cannot be deleted, but can now be marked
“inactive”.
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Under the
Utilities menu option V7 now has a Record
Statistics option that lists the number of
patients, number of bills, and the number of
billing service lines currently in the system.
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Unlimited
length for text fields, including Code and Name
fields. Spell correction from any field.
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Co-pay can be
recorded at patient file and applied to bill
later
Appointments:
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Unlimited
Appointment Templates can be created by provider
using custom colors and time frames.
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Visit Types:
In Appointment Templates you can choose Visit
Types that force the use of a selected visit
type when scheduling appointments.
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Blocked Time
Slots: In Templates you can block days and times
so that appointments cannot be scheduled.
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The
“Appointment Reason” field is now viewable
directly from the Appointment window in the
daily view.
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Preferred
Phone Field: Select a preferred phone number in
patient file and it will become the default for
that patient in the appointment screen.
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Ability to
Search on Visit Type: You can now search for a
free appointment by Visit Type.
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Concurrency:
Now set a Concurrency Limit during a search if
you want to book more than one appointment per
time slot.
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New Tabular
format in the Appointment Detail. This function
was formerly handled by buttons in Detail
screen. Use Tabs for Repeat Appointments, Multi
Schedule, and Notes. Reasons are all located on
specific tabs.
Reports:
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The Day Sheet,
Transaction Journal, Practice Analysis,
Insurance Payment Analysis and Patient Encounter
Form (EMR only) are now fully customizable
through the Design Custom Forms screen.
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The Day Sheet,
Transaction Journal and Practice Analysis can
now be sorted by any field in the billing
_detail information and are displayed in
ascending or descending order.
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Import and
Export Columnar, and Form based reports.
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Export the
results of SQL window queries to a
comma-delimited file for use in other programs.
This is an excellent reporting tool.
Report Writer:
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Improved
WYSIWYG report writer with cross-hair
guidelines, snap-to thresholds, nudging,
auto-spacing, section masking and locking.
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New “Smart”
data field relationships in report creation so
that you do not have to understand or specify
the relationships.
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New Cross-hair
grid guidelines to help position fields on the
form view of the report writer screen.
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Now Align
Objects by “nudging” in report writer.
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New Auto
Spacing options in the report writer.
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New
mathematical calculation capabilities for
columnar reports.
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Virtually
unlimited “Undo” capability in the WYSIWYG
report writer.
Claims:
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Sort claims
batches using any combination of fields (up to
three levels)
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“Maximum
Claims to Process" option when batching claims
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The Batch
Payments feature is now easier, more
user-friendly and more powerful than ever.
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Auto bill
Secondary Insurance and or Patient after the
Primary has paid
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