Hardware requirement Minimum Pentium-II or higher with minimum 64 MB RAM & 400 MB of free disc space. Software requirement : Operating system : Windows 98 or higher.
The software helps a clinician to give out safe,first rate & fool-proof prescription to the patient by checking drug interactions while writing prescription through it. Secondly,the software keeps in memory various data of the patient & cross check them with its drug data-base to give out warning in case of any adverse safety report regarding pregnancy,lactation,paediatric,elderly,renal insufficiency,heptic insufficiency & pulmonary insufficiency.
In our daily practice software is useful in maintaining day to day accounting of the practice besides keeping patients records in safe & orderly fashion.It also keeps track of our appointments,important dates like birthdays,marriage anniversary day,LIC premium payment dates,income tax dates,etc.
The following functions makes the software intelligent :
- On entering height & weight of patient in metric system it automatically calculates body mass index & obesity.
- If patient is male, the pregnancy & lactation parameters automatically become blur.
- On entering date of birth of patient it calculates the age in years, mths & days up to the present date of prescription & automatically updates the age thereafter.
- On entering the date of last menstrual cycle it automatically calculates the expected date of delivery.
- On entering the safety parameters in the patient data it always automatically checks for the brand safety & warns you in case it is unsafe in such conditions.
- Can guide you regarding use of any new brand or drug in any disease situation.
- Automatically checks for drug interactions & duplications so that you hand over a safe prescription to the patient.
- Can guide you regarding what investigation should be done in any disease situation.
NO,The software is not a nursing home or hospital management software.
YES. The software is self sufficient for a small nursing home as it is a prescription writing software plus it can generate all kinds of reports if the nursing home has its own laboratory x-ray plant, ultra sound or even a CT scan . It is useful for nursing homes as you can always check indoor patients treatment on this software for any kind of drug interactions or side effects. The indoor patients are always either serious patients or using multiple drugs. Secondly since the software can generate outdoor cards & keeps record of all incoming patients specialty wise, it may be of tremendous help in day to day running of the nursing home.
YES. It can generate all kinds of pathological reports, x-ray reports ultra sound reports etc. etc. . The software has inbuilt facility to add any kinds of new investigations or reports in future also.
The software has been designed in such a way that any doctor can use it effectively. For different specialist there are different sets of complaints, diseases & investigations. Since we have kept the software open to additions or changes, the software can be molded accordingly.
You can work both ways in the same fluent manner.
2-4 minutes only.
only two,name and age.
Yes. There are two-three prewritten sample prescriptions for viral fever , tuberculosis & typhoid fever to give idea to the user how he can make any number of prewritten prescriptions for commonly encountered diseases & can download when he needs them to avoid rewriting. As everyone has some preferences of his own about prescribing, we have not put many sample prescriptions.
You can update the software in every respect like drug , brands, diseases, complaints, procedures, operations, investigations , reports, certificates, cities, vaccinations , physical examinations .
Yes. Since it wastes much time to first go to the masters to update the new complaint & then come back in the prescription writing area to enter the complaints we have made arrangements to directly enter any new complaint in the complaints writing area.
The software guides you about the safety parameters by two methods :
a-It pops up a message in case there is any kind of adverse reaction while you are entering brands in the prescription, which you can't miss.
b-There is a display window above the brands writing area which continuously displays the information about all kinds of safety parameters in different color shades to catch eyes. Unsafe information is displayed in red, safe in black, uncertain in green (suggesting that you still can go ahead with prescribing) & careful in blue.
The software is not only for the physicians but for every prescribing doctor since it has extensive drug database, diseases database & investigations database along with innovative world class patients data saving features.
There is no restriction to the number of patients or record,it only depends on the space on hard drive.
Yes. Once you have selected the follow up patient, click on the patient history button & its all previous prescription / visits would appear in chronological order along with investigations.
Through criteria based brand search you can take help of the software in choosing a brand for any indication or disease or a brand of some particular company only or some particular generic drugs brand etc., etc.. There are endless possibilities.
Yes, we have two utilities which help in quick evaluation of the patient condition / disease. – Graphical presentation of any numerical investigation in bar chart for any specified period of time makes the understanding very quick & easy. – " Patient history " utility has all patients visits stored in chronological order which can be seen one by one to see patients progress.
Yes & you can compare any two photograph placing them side by side through the software.
There is no restrictionto the number of patients or records,it only depends on the space on hard drive.
Yes. Once you have selected the follow up patient, click on the patient history button & its all previous prescription / visits would appear in chronological order along with investigations.
Through criteria based brand search you can take help of the software in choosing a brand for any indication or disease or a brand of some particular company only or some particular generic drugs brand etc., etc.. There are endless possibilities.
Yes, we have two utilities which help in quick evaluation of the patient condition / disease. – Graphical presentation of any numerical investigation in bar chart for any specified period of time makes the understanding very quick & easy. – " Patient history " utility has all patients visits stored in chronological order which can be seen one by one to see patients progress.
Yes & you can compare any two photographs placing them side by side through the software.
No, just select the name of the patient from find window on clicking at find button & press enter. The patient's details would automatically download on the screen. If there is some change in the address or any thing then you can edit it otherwise nothing is to be done.
Yes. When you select patient from the list & download its bio-data, the software automatically asks for your permission to download its previous prescription & physical findings.
Through criteria based brand search you can take help of the software in choosing a brand for any indication or disease or a brand of some particular company only or some particular generic drugs brand etc., etc.. There are endless possibilities.
Yes to write any new brand directly in the prescription writing area to save time is possible but you have to complete its record ie. enter brand information in all of its fields ( drugs , dosage forms , company, dosage , group, subgroup & composition ) to have advantage of all features of the software later on.
Through " criteria based brands search " option in brands writing screen, click on indication button & then enter name of the disease in the entry field below & press enter key twice to reach to the brands writing grid. Here on pressing F4 key all the brands used in that disease would be displayed, out of which one you can select.
While we are writing prescription , the software checks all the generic items of the prescribed brand with all the generic drugs of the previously written brands & displays the types of interactions in a pop up screen so that you don't miss it. You need not to go to another window or click any button which waste time to check for interactions. The interaction feature is so good or complete that it checks for interactions between all the constituent drugs of a brand even. By this way we have found that some of the brand formulae in the market are not proper.
Yes. The interaction history of every prescription is stored in the computer memory & can be recalled any time in future. This is very helpful in situations when a patient comes some time later with some kind of complaint or side effect & we want to see that this particular problem is not due to any drug interaction which we might have overlooked earlier.
Yes. There is " DISEASES DETAILS " option under master details menu button which has complete information about investigations , causes & differential diagnosis of more than 1,000 diseases. This contains list of relevant investigations along with their interpretation in relation to that particular disease to help clinicians.
System wise examination you can keep in the physical examination section. Here you can write your other observations & you can write as much as you want, the screen would keep on rolling up while you are writing. You can write both in continuous fashion or in interrupted fashion.
In certain cases you would like to select only those investigations which are related to heart , kidney or liver, so we have categorized the investigations under different profiles as well as in one long list to save time.
You can enter all kinds of investigations in the software whether it is numerical or in text form. You can even enter video films, pt's photographs which may be very useful with skin specialists, gastroenterologists & plastic surgeons as well as ECG tracings , or other graphic reports , x-rays plates after scanning them.
Yes,you can use your printed stationary by deselecting the header deatails in the reports option through package control parameter.
Yes , you can generate investigation reports individually like any proper good pathology lab report or in summery fashion if there are many investigations of the same patient.
No,the bar chart can be produced for every numerical investigation.
Yes,you can dowload any prescription in the software after selecting it from the find window.
Yes, you can take out prints of any investigation through document generation facility or through investigation details option in prescription writing screen.
Yes, you can take out hard copies of almost one hundred reports from the software.
Yes, you specify from which date to which date you want the report to be generated.
The software is so versatile that every kind of report can be generated through it.
Yes. Since it wastes much time to first go to the masters to update the new complaint & then come back in the prescription writing area to enter the complaints we have made arrangements to directly enter any new complaint in the complaints writing area.
Yes,you can generate automatic reminder letters to the due candidates by one click on the mouses.
There are four utilities to protect the data-base from crashing like compact database,repair database,backup database & restore database.
Yes , there is one scheduler program under package control menu option which keeps track of our important dates & appointments. This program can remind us of important dates or massages from any predetermined date to D-day whenever we would open the software.
Yes ,you can change the color scheme or appearence of the software through control parameters option in the software.
Yes ,you can have your own alphanumerical password through control parameters option & protect it from my unauthorized users.
Yes ,there is provision to protect your software settings also through a separate password.
You can change user's information any time. In the software there is provision to keep two addresses at the top of prescription pad. These could be two clinic addresses or one clinic & one residential address as you choose. Then whole behavior of the software can be changed by selecting or deselecting various options in the package control parameters screen for example you can have sound effects , automatic backup facility, enable or disable substitute check, drug interactions check, drug duplication check, etc.