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The system functions I have
been solely responsible for (including the analysis, programming, testing,
documentation, and user instruction) from 1978 to 1995 include, but are
not limited to:
1. Patient Database
- Patient demographics
- Retrieval of patient data
via patient name soundex, social security number, phone number, Denti-Cal
number, student assignment, etc.
- Medical and drug allergy
flags
- Student (re-)assignment
tracking
- Membership in family groups
- Inactivation tracking and
letter production
- Patient recall system produces
letters and reports by department
2. Appointment scheduling
- Departmental by student/provider
- Main Clinic by chair (computer
automatically optimally assigns chairs based on department and time)
- Missed/Canceled appointment
tracking
3. Chart Tracking
- Student checking charts
out/in (time and number with limits)
- Inter-department chart checking
to track chart location
- Charts requested by student
or department when checked in
4. Treatment Planning
- Treatment plan entry and
maintenance including date procedures completed and estimated treatment
cost
- Patient/instructor authorizations
- Listing of treatments and
patients currently being treated
5. Student Clinical Requirements
- Student points tracking
for clinic procedures
- Students with advanced standing
production tracking and remuneration
- Clinic attendance tracking
including block requirements completion
- Selective hours tracking
for extra curricular/special assignments
6. Financial
- Budgeting (yearly budget
creation and manipulation, travel funds budgeting and expenditures,
cost center and object code expenditures, creating/printing/tracking
check requests, etc.)
- Comprehensive patient accounts
receivable system
- Patient and insurance billing
- Cashiering functions
7. Insurance
- Responsible party demographics
- Clinic Accounts Notebook
(used by insurance, dental records, data entry and financial personnel
to track patient financial transactions/agreements-to-pay)
- Paper billing of insurance
- EDI billing of Denti-Cal
patients
8. Test grading and grade book
- Mark sense grading of exams
and tracking by exam type
- Exam scores kept on-line
by course including labs
- Support differently weighted
exams and questions with multiple exam versions
- Regrading and manual entry
of data by specific operators
- Comprehensive exam report
including question suitability and difficulty index, dispersion, skewness,
and other analyses
- Student exam card produced
indicating questions missed, score, and grade
- Comprehensive end of course
report
9. Clinic Production
- Procedures started, in-progress
and completed using Patient Visit Form (PVF)
- Student points tracking
including adjustments and reporting
10. Department requirements
tracking
- Student progress toward
graduation requirements for each department/area
- Special reports required
11. Sterilization
- Courses taken and requirements
met by students, faculty, and staff
- Equipment, cassette, and
expendable supplies checking out/in and usage tracking by student and
faculty using bar coding
- Equipment sterilization
tracking
12. Support for private practice
groups associated with the School
13. Faculty, student, and staff
database
14. Routines accessible through
department/student specific menus or via application/routine keywords(s)
15. Electronic mail between
operators
16. Text editor with spell
checker and merge capabilities of patient and student data for letters
or reports
Plus all the screens, reports,
documentation, and training to support the above functionality. Even though
the system was written in MIIS (a dialect of M or MUMPS) it would not
be that difficult to translate it into M or Caché with a GUI interface.
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