Page 1: Table Of Contents
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements In this document: • User Security, 3 • Patient Information Center, 5 • Vision/Rx, 10 • ExamWRITER Editor, 18 • Patient Quick List, 19 • Diagnosis/Procedure Coding, 22 • Quick Code, 24 • Patient History, 24 • Reason for Visit, 27 •...
Page 2 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements OfficeMate Software Solutions announces the newest version of ExamWRITER! In addition to resolving several known issues in previous versions of ExamWRITER, this updated version improves upon ExamWRITER’s current robust attributes and offers useful new features and expanded functionality. For additional information on...
Page 3: User Security
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements User Security User Security The redesigned User Security window contains the following new features: • Ability to assign access privileges for the following tasks: − Editing exam text and auto letter sequences − Coding exams − Closing and finalizing exams −...
Page 4 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements User Security • Ability to assign full, read only, and no access privileges to specific exam categories. • Ability to assign full, read only, and no access privileges to patient demographic maintenance in the standalone version of ExamWRITER. ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements...
Page 5: Patient Information Center
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Patient Information Center Patient The improved Patient Information Center contains the following new features: Information • Ability to view the date the patient was last dilated. Center • Ability to record historical blood pressure, pulse, pachymetry, CD ratio, and IOP values under the Glaucoma Elements tab.
Page 6 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Patient Information Center • Ability to quickly distinguish discontinued medications and medications to which the patient is allergic under the Med/Surgical Hx tab. • Ability to mark or unmark medications as being discontinued under the Med/Surgical Hx tab. To mark or unmark a medication as being discontinued, right-click on the medication in the Medication History, Medical Hx, Surgical Hx, Ocular Hx, or Ocular Surgical Hx table and select Discontinue or Remove Discontinue.
Page 7 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Patient Information Center • Ability to view spectacle lab order numbers and create lab orders for final and alternate prescriptions under the Spectacle Rx tab. You can only create lab orders under this tab for finalized exams (if one has not already been created). To create a lab order for a finalized exam, find a patient with a finalized exam, click the Patient Hx icon on the ExamWRITER Control Center, (do not click the Patient Hx icon from within an exam), right-click on a finalized exam final...
Page 8 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Patient Information Center • Ability to view contact lens lab order numbers and create lab orders for final and trial prescriptions under the Contact Lens Rx tab. You can only create lab orders under this tab for finalized exams (if one has not already been created). To create a lab order for a finalized exam, find a patient with a finalized exam, click the Patient Hx icon on the ExamWRITER Control Center, (do not click the Patient Hx icon from within an exam), right-click on a finalized exam final...
Page 9 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Patient Information Center • Ability to attach electronic documents to specific exam records. To attach an electronic document to a specific exam record, click the eDocuments tab in the Patient Information Center and click Add or click the Images, Drawing and Graphic category bar on the ExamWRITER chart window and click New.
Page 10: Vision/Rx
Ability to post charges for final soft and rigid contact lenses and final and alternate spectacles to a fee slip in OfficeMate without creating a lab order. To post charges without creating a lab order, record an Rx and click Post Charges ONLY.
Page 11 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Vision/Rx • Ability to automatically apply vertex corrections to trial contact lens prescriptions. To automatically apply a vertex correction to a trial contact lens prescription, record and save a final spectacle Rx and then copy it to the trial contact lens Rx. Click the Vertex Correction button and the sphere and cylinder fields will automatically be corrected if they are at or above +/- 4 diopters.
Page 12 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Vision/Rx • Completely redesigned and improved Contact Lens Rx window that includes locations for recording the following information: − Tints − DOT (rigid lenses only) − Blends (rigid lenses only) − Seg Ht − Multiple base curves −...
Page 13 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Vision/Rx • Ability to view the following information in the redesigned Contact Lens Rx window: − Final spectacle Rx − K Readings − Vertex distance − Working distance − Tints • Ability to automatically transfer BC, Dia, Sph, Cyl, and Axis measurements from the Contact Lens Rx window to the Select Contact Lens window to more quickly find appropriate contact lenses for patient prescriptions.
Page 14 Final and alternate Rx lens product information − Final and alternate Rx lab order options, including add-ons and special lab instructions Lab order options selected in the Spectacle Rx window are transferred to OfficeMate to enhance communication between the doctor and technical staff. ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements...
Page 15 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Vision/Rx − Final and alternate Rx notes Rx notes recorded in the Spectacle Rx window will print on the ExamWRITER Rx. − Binocular information − Subjective manifest Rx binocular information − Subjective cycloplegic Rx binocular information ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements...
Page 16 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Vision/Rx • Ability to copy subjective spectacle cycloplegic prescriptions to final prescriptions. • Ability to copy subjective spectacle manifest prescriptions to subjective spectacle cycloplegic prescriptions. ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements...
Page 17 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Vision/Rx • Expanded pupillary distance measurement grid (0.5 increments). • Ability to quickly notice if there are contact lens trial and final Rx notes and spectacle final and alternate Rx notes from the ExamWRITER chart window. ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements...
Page 18: Examwriter Editor
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements ExamWRITER Editor ExamWRITER The improved ExamWRITER Editor windows contain the following new feature: Editor Ability to customize descriptive exam text. Note To view your changes in the ExamWRITER chart window, you must close and reopen ExamWRITER after you modify text in the ExamWRITER Editor.
Page 19: Patient Quick List
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Patient Quick List Double-click on a string of User’s Text, modify the text, and click Save. Notes • Right-click on a string of Default Text and select Copy Default Text to copy the default text to the User’s Text. •...
Page 20 Quick List. • To maintain a list of office room locations in the Patient Room window, open the Customization window in OfficeMate (or ExamWRITER, if you are a standalone user), click the List Box Selections tab, and modify the Office Locations Entry Field Name.
Page 21 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Patient Quick List ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements...
Page 22: Diagnosis/Procedure Coding
ExamWRITER, only the codes listed in the first six rows of the Selected Diagnosis table will appear on the ExamWRITER chart window and transfer to OfficeMate. • If you copied forward a version 7.x exam, click Clear All and then click Auto Code to populate the Selected Diagnosis table with codes from the previous and new exam records.
Page 23 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Diagnosis/Procedure Coding • Ability to assign risk factors to medical decisions. To assign risk factors, record 992xx procedure codes and click Save/Exit. Select a risk factor from the Risk Factors window. ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements...
Page 24: Quick Code
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Quick Code Quick Code The improved Quick Code window contains the following new feature: Ability to assign risk factors to medical decisions. To assign risk factors, click the Risk column heading and then select a risk factor from the Risk Factors window.
Page 25 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Patient History • Ability to record patients’ dispositions and orientations. • Ocular Family History and Systemic Family History windows allow you to record multiple ocular and systemic histories for multiple family members. • Ability to denote if a patient is allergic to a specific medication in the Patient Systemic Medications and Patient Ocular Medications windows.
Page 26 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Patient History • Ability to record a medication as being discontinued in the Patient Systemic Medications and Patient Ocular Medications windows. To record a medication as being discontinued, select the patient medication and click Discontinue. The medication’s status is marked as discontinued and it is removed from the list of medications.
Page 27: Reason For Visit
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Reason for Visit Reason for The improved Reason for Visit window contains the following new features: Visit • Ability to view when the Prior Records exist check box is selected from the ExamWRITER chart window. • Ability to view (but not record) the last exam dates of established patients in the Last Exam Date text box.
Page 28: Plan - Management
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Plan - Management Plan - The improved Plan - Management tab contains the following new features: Management • Indiana, South Carolina, and Florida state compliant medication Rx forms. • Redesigned and easier to read printed Rx forms that include Rx notes, PDs, lens information, tints, add-ons, and contact lens care regimens.
Page 29: Examination
Months to Recall text box or type or select a recall date in the Next Recall text box. Click Save to save the new recall type and schedule in the Recall tab on the OfficeMate Patient Demographic window.
Page 30: Products
Details tab will override the codes in the CPT/HCPCS Code text box in the Products tab when you add the lenses to fee slips in OfficeMate. If you do not record a CPT code in the Product Code text box in the Product Details tab, the code in the CPT/HCPCS Code text box in the Products tab will appear on fee slips in OfficeMate.
Page 31: Product Setup
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Product Setup • Ability to drag and drop column headings in the Products window to rearrange column views. Product Setup The new Product Setup window contains the following new features: • Ability to set up barcode label options. To set up barcode label options, click Tools on the ExamWRITER main window, select Product Setup, click the Preferences tab, select appropriate Barcode Label Options, and click OK.
Page 32: Preferences
Ability to designate a default ICD9 coding and default procedure coding view for the Diagnosis/Procedure Coding window. • New OfficeMate Interface option general preferences allow you to choose if you want to automatically transfer ophthalmic lens products and add-on charges to OfficeMate fee slips.
Page 33 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Preferences • New auto letter preferences in the Report Settings System Preference tab. • Additional default preferences, including the Rx expiration date for contact lenses and eyewear, spectacle and contact lens Rx print options, default Rx view in the Final Spectacle Rx tab, print DEA # on medication Rx, show contact lens list in the Rx window, next appointment default, show Patient Quick List, auto select Impression/Tx, and insert “No~exists except:”...
Page 34 ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Preferences • New Copy Options preferences allows you to choose whether or not you want to copy notes and addendums forward into new exams. • New Printer Defaults tab allows you to select a default printer for printing medical and ophthalmic prescriptions.
Page 35: Medication Maintenance
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Medication Maintenance Medication The improved Medications Maintenance window contains the following new feature: Maintenance Ability to save default dosage and quantity measurements for medications. After selecting a default dosage and quantity from the drop-down menus, the default selections appear in the Quantity and Dosage columns.
Page 36: Examwriter Control Center
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements ExamWRITER Control Center ExamWRITER The improved ExamWRITER Control Center window contains the following new Control features: Center • Ability to update a patient’s office room location on the Open Charts tab. To update a patient’s office room location on the Open Charts tab, right-click on a patient, select Update Patient Room, select the room in the office where the patient is located, and click Save to denote this room on the ExamWRITER Control Center and Patient Quick List.
Page 37: Business Names
ExamWRITER 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 Enhancements Business Names Business The improved Business Names window contains the following new feature: Names Separate TPA and DEA numbers. Auto Letters The improved auto letters contain the following new features • Ability to print visual acuities if an Rx is not recorded. •...
Page 38: Code Maintenance
Equipment If you have purchased and installed the ExamWRITER equipment interface Interfaces integration and have upgraded to ExamWRITER 7.3, you will be able to interface with the following equipment: • Heidelberg/HRT •...
Page 39: Other
Addition of occupation and chart number on the printed exam short header. • Ability to renew your Annual Software Maintenance Agreement (ASMA) online at our Web site www.officemate.net. • Notification when a patient’s name is changed so that the change is not saved in error.

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