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

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Mark Beans, MCSE, MCP+I
Medical Software Tools
http://www.medicalsoftwaretools.com/

Now you can create cases in Medisoft using Import Wizard!

We recently got a call from a software vendor that offers an ASP based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system who has many clients on Medisoft. Their challenge was how to integrate their EMR with their Medisoft software so that their customers could import data on demand into Medisoft for their billing. Import Wizard is ideal for this application and now with the introduction of Import Wizard Plus you can even create cases in Medisoft.

Import Wizard Plus is ideally suited to import data into Medisoft from a variety of external data systems (i.e. EMR, HIS, Schedulers, etc.). The external system simply generates ASCII CSV files and writes them to a known location (the Import Wizard Plus “Import” folder). Import Wizard Plus is configured to read the CSV file in that folder, when it is run it parses the data and writes it to Medisoft. Import Wizard Plus can import current insurance information for each patient and create a case that corresponds that that patient visit. The current version of Import Wizard Plus is an on demand system (i.e. it is initiated by the operator) it can be configured to pole the Import folder on an automated basis (Import Wizard RT).

Note that often times third party report generating software such as Crystal Reports can be used to export data from your external system (i.e. EMR, HIS, Schedulers, etc.).

When creating cases in Medisoft from your external system matches for patients and providers are made based on a variety of references which would normally be unique in both systems such as social security number, NPI, etc. Import Wizard also stores a chart number for each patient from the external system (EMR, Hosptial Information Systems, Scheduler, etc.) and can match future transactions based on that external (i.e. non Medisoft) chart number.Many of our customers also use Import Wizard to migrate data out of another billing software into medisoft. Import Wizard works great for data conversions or for importing data into Medisoft on an ongoing basis.

For more information check out Import Wizard at:

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

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