Importing Transactions from a Laboratory Information System into Medisoft Software

We were recently contacted by a customer who operates a medical laboratory in central Florida and is in the process of setting up another laboratory in the Florida panhandle. His challenge was the labor costs associated with having to rekey information generated from his Laboratory Information System (LIS) into his Medisoft medical billing software (in his case he is using APeasy for his LIS).

Independently the Medisoft software was meeting his needs and his Laboratory Information System (APeasy Anatomical Pathology Software produced by Small Business Computers of New England, Inc) was meeting his needs but what he really wanted to do was to integrate his Laboratory Information System and his Medisoft software.

He contacted us and asked us about using the Import Wizard product to import the Laboratory Information System data into Medisoft. The challenge and the opportunity offered by this customer is that that the Laboratory Information System doesn’t just export master file data (i.e. patient charts, insurance companies, CPT-4 codes, ICD-9 codes, guarantors, etc.) it also provided the capability to export claim related transaction information.

To meet the customer’s needs we released a new version of Import Wizard called IW+Transactions. This version of Import Wizard is ideal for importing transaction and claim related information (including the master file data) to Medisoft from third party software systems such as laboratory systems, hospital information systems, document management systems, Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMRs), etc.

This product is not designed to “convert” or import claims that have already been created and billed but imports claim related data to Medisoft so that new claims can be created. This is of course an important distinction.

For more information check out the Import Wizard at:

http://medicalsoftwaretools.com/services/medisoft_data_conversion/default.htm

The Import Wizard Transaction Import Format (IWTIF) can also be viewed on that page.

For more information give us a call at 1-813-471-1996!

Mark Beans, MCSE, MCP+I
Medical Software Tools
www.MedicalSoftwareTools.com