Newest Features and Information about the System:

This time we have a huge update for all iGabinet users. Just as we promised our clients few weeks ago, we have just finished a brand new pharmaceutical compendium module, which is a large database of all the medicines and products available in polish pharmacies. The compendium is integrated with visit descriptions module, as well as it can be used totally independently.

How does it work? Try to imagine the following situation: along comes a patient, who needs a prescription for an uncommon medicine, so and then you need detailed information about the available forms of this medicine, its counter indications, or more importantly its price (if it is not too high for the patient), and all the available substitutes.

The compendium is a great help here, as it allows you to instantly check all the necessary medicines in all the available forms, where each of them has a detailed description containing the following:

• package efficiency along with its price
• form of the medicine, along with its ingredients
• indications and counter indications
• sales admission or exclusion
• manufacturer contact information (website, phone no., fax no.)
• substitutes (medicines with similar effectiveness)

As you can see, by using the new compendium, you can quickly find out all the necessary information about the medicine that is the most suitable and acceptable (in terms of price) for the patient.

The compendium module has been integrated with visit description module, therefore you can prepare various recommendations for using specified drugs. The recommendations can be further placed in the visit details report, which you can then print for a patient.

The new module stores all the most frequently prescribed medicines by each specialist, as well as it stores all the recommendations for each medicine. These two functions, besides increasing the value of the whole module, allow you to use the compendium amazingly easily, because all the operations can be achieved only by using the mouse.

The compendium has a huge database, that contains more than 140 thousand of various medicines, cosmetic, therapeutic and rehabilitation products, and others. The database itself is constantly updated, therefore all the information you get from the module are always up-to-date. Again, our clients do not have to worry about the updates, as these are made totally automatically.

As always, we are waiting for you suggestions of further development and customization of the new pharmaceutical module. We can also reveal, we will use it as a base for another huge update ahead – automatic prescription generation. This is all we can tell for now, however we are also pretty sure that both modules will prove very useful.

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Today’s update is quite small, nevertheless also quite vital. Due to the new print configuration tools, you are now able to very precisely adjust all the print parameters, that will be then used with various print functionality of iGabinet.

The need to create such setup tools, originally came from one of our largest clinics – Sonomed Specialized Medical Center from Szczecin (Poland). The problem was that the clinic has ordered its own corporate paper, with its own brand in full color on it and other stuff.

The goal was to get rid of standard contact headers and footers that are automatically generated by iGabinet and also to allow the clinic to customize print margins and spacing of particular elements on a printed page.

From now on, if you ever decide to use your own corporate paper, you will be able to do so, thanks to the new configuration tools, which make it possible to customize everything within seconds.

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According to huge popularity of the daily work schedules module in iGabinet, as well as due to many enhancement suggestions from our clients, it was the module our development team devoted few last weeks of work to.

We are deeply convinced the new functionality will fully satisfy your needs, because the new functions are supposed to both, increase the comfort and ease of use of the iGabinet, as well as to provide some new tools to manage the booked visits of patients.

One of the most anticipated functions was the ability to lengthen and shorten both the free visit terms that are potentially available for the patients to book, as well as to modify the length of visit that is already booked. From now on, it is possible to do all these operations quite smooth, and also the system will automatically calculate the time, that the visit term is modified with. In case of shortening operation, it will also insert a new free visit term that can be used by patients to book.

All the operations in the specialists’ work schedules have also changed, as everything can now be done in the familiar operational windows, which caused significant reduction in the number of clicks for each operation, and consequently the time necessary for each of them also has been greatly reduced. So go on, and check the new functionality out. We are always looking forward for your opinions and suggestions.

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According to numerous suggestions, specialist’s daily work schedule in iGabinet has been enhanced with some modifications and brand new features. It is now possible to manage the work schedule of each specialist in one place and moreover, the time that was necessary to enter all the changes, has been greatly reduced.

This solution will definitely improve the workflow of any reception, as the new functionality enables very intuitive switching between the specialists’ work schedules on the given dates. It also became possible to add and remove free visit terms, as well as to assign patients to a given term “on the fly”, with a single mouse click.

Naturally, because iGabinet has a built-in support for a network of clinics, the work schedule allows to plan the work of any given specialist in each clinic, which is very useful in a situation, where the specialist is working in multiple clinics on the same day.

Although the work schedule allows settings for any given date, in order to make the tool even more comfortable, a special buttons have been created, which allow to easily switch the work schedule for the 7 follow-up days.

The new functionality in the specialists’ work schedules bring much more comfort and speed of everyday use of iGabinet. The tool is available from multiple places and is independent from the calendar. So, we strongly encourage you to try out the new tool and as always, we are looking forward to hear your suggestions for further improvements.

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Our development team has just finished another huge update for iGabinet, which allows to store any type of attachments along with a patient’s visit, and then to manage them with ease. For some time, this was one of the most anticipated features in the system.

So, what do you get? Well, quite a lot. Not only you can describe the patients’ visits anyway you want, but also it is now possible to add all sorts of graphic materials (like RTG / RTV diagrams), audiovisual data (e.g. live USG recordings), and many others.

For the image-based attachments, it is possible to view them directly in the iGabinet, which provides a flexible mechanism, that allows you for smooth enlargements to the full size of the photos on demand, without any quality loss. The mechanism therefore guarantees a quick review of the materials stored this way.

As for the other types of attachments, which are not image-based, or are saved as a non-standard file types, it is possible to download them to be run in a specialized software, stored on a local hard drive, or even sent to a patient in question.

To make the search for the patient’s attachments even more intuitive, they can be also found in the patient information record, along with his history of visits. The mechanism of attachments management will be further enhanced in accordance with your suggestions.

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For some time, one of the most anticipated functions in iGabinet was the one to allow generating documents in PDF format, very easy to permanently store and print. Naturally we have already dealt with this issue and as a first result, you can now easily generate, store and print the details of a patient’s visit.

This makes it very convenient to send a document to the patient by e-mail (or to print it), that presents the description of a visit, a diagnosis, as well as all the results and treatments.

You can expect many more features in iGabinet, related to the new functions of generating PDF documents. One of them will be the patient’s full disease history, so stay tuned.

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Soon there will be a lot of updates that will greatly improve the ease of patients’ visits and reservations management module in the iGabinet. The introductionary one is the detailed work schedule of each specialists for any given day.

The schedule has been developed, traditionally in cooperation with our clients who requested it. It allows to quickly scan through all the visits, reservations for visits, and terms that are still free to book in the particular day. It also gives the exact times of each visit or reservation, and each type of term is visually distinguished with a specified color, which allows a specialist to review his work plan for this day within seconds.

The daily work schedule is just the beginning of yet another method to manage the visits and reservations that are available in iGabinet. Soon it will be possible to lengthen or shorten each term of visit or reservation with just one mouse-click, so stay tuned.

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After a long while, it is our great pleasure to present you a brand-new dental module for the iGabinet system, which is the patient’s dental card. This module has been developed in close cooperation with dentists, and we are deeply convinced it aces in everything else that has been developed in this field. Have a nice read!

First of all, we would like to mention, the dental module is totally free of charge and it naturally extends the present functionality of iGabinet in the field of patient’s dental service. All of our clients have been given the module as a free, automatic update to their systems. All the others that are willing to order their new installation of iGabinet will be having the dental module available by default.

In the description of the dental module below, we will try to prove the concept, that its new features, surpasses the functionality that is usually offered by competitive stand-alone desktop systems. Here, we have just one module that is a natural extension to already huge functionality of iGabinet and moreover, its completely free of charge. What is the value added in this case? Please decide for yourself. Let’s get it started.

You can find the new functionality of patient’s dental card on both, the patient information pages, as well as on the visit information. The users of iGabinet are already accustomed to unique simplicity of use, and this case is not an exception. The patient’s dental card allows you to instantly get acquainted precisely with patient’s set of teeth and its current condition. Each particular tooth is presented with details, moreover each state, or disorder is visualized by a specialized legend.

The legend shows all the states and disorders of each patient’s tooth, as well as the number of teeth, that have the particular state, or teeth that are affected with a particular disorder. The more so, if you move the cursor over the particular element, the respective teeth are highlighted. This allows you to quickly analyze the patient’s whole set of teeth and plan the treatment. These features will be quickly reviewed below.

First of all, you can specify the type of each tooth, and therefore decide, if the particular tooth requires treatment, is a deciduous milk tooth, has been removed or there is a loss due to innate defect, etc. You can also set the state of the teeth in the treatment, and therefore assign the tooth for standard treatment, root canal (endodontic) treatment, or extraction.

Additionally, you can mark some teeth as the crown, or bridge of teeth. It is also possible to very precisely set the gums condition with respect to paradontosis. Each tooth can be marked not only for having a paradontosis, but also can have a specified grade of it (none, light, medium, advanced), which is associated with a specified color and its tint, and therefore visualized immediately in the patient’s dental card, which as we already mentioned allows you to instantly review the condition of the patient’s teeth.

Similar mechanism is used to set the condition of tartar for each tooth. The module allows you to set the degree of tartar (whether it is scale, plate, or heavy tartar). All the settings, just as in case of paradontosis, are visualized in the patient’s dental card with a respective tint of a specified color.

Each time you change the condition of a tooth, it is distinctly reflected in the patient’s dental card, in real-time. As you probably guess, all the states and disorders of the patient’s teeth can be defined simultaneously for each one of them. Pay close attention for just how much precision the new dental module offers and this is only the beginning. Now we describe some features of the tooth edit page, that allows for a detailed list of treatments for each part of it.

The patient’s dental card module also features a very detailed diagnosis and treatment description for each tooth. After you open the tooth edit page, by using a neat context menu, you can set a morbid progression for a particular part of the crown, or root of the tooth.

When editing the crown of the tooth, you can set if the tooth is hale, has the beginning of caries, has advanced caries, or has derivative caries. Each parameter can be set for each part of the crown (top, front, rear, left side or right side). By analogy, there is a similar mechanism for the edition of filling for each part of the tooth’s crown. We can assign a filling such as: amalgam, composite, compomer, ormocer, ceramic, or other. There are also specified colors assigned to both the caries diagnosis, as well as filling types, that are helpful for identification of them in the schematics of patient’s teeth.

You can edit the disorders and fillings related to the root of the tooth in the very similar way. Depending on the type of the tooth, the root can also be divided into separate parts, that can be edited separately. Therefore, we can assign morbid disorders, such as: cambium necrosis, cambium ignition, mortification, or mark the root for re-endodontic treatment.

In the very similar way, you can edit the filling of the tooth’s root. You can classify the filling by the material used, such as endomethazone, gutap, or others. There is also the same way of colorizing each disorder and filling, that are reflected in the patient’s dental card.

Each dental treatment can be also well described by adding multiple annotations to each tooth. It is especially useful when you edit the visit of the patient. There is no limitation for the number of notes, which can also be added by more than one dentist.

The patient’s dental card allows you to not only specify the current condition of the patient’s teeth, but also enables you to access the full history of the treatments for each tooth. This allows the dentist to instantly reconnoiter the patient’s teeth, the history of their disorders and the treatments that were carried to each one of them.

Additionally, the whole module of patient’s dental card has been developed with compliance with newest technology of vector processing, therefore it faithfully represents each type of teeth, and all the descriptions and terms used, are compliant with an international ISO-3950 standard.

We are slowly coming to an end of description of a module, we are truly satisfied and proud of. Of course we could send our programming department for the vacation they actually deserved, however we promised our clients gratuitous and frequent updates of their systems, when we signed the deal with them. As you can see, we live up to our word.

We are waiting for your opinions and propositions for additional updates. Remember, that you are the one, that are the initiators for most of the functionality that are developed and implemented into iGabinet, therefore it is always evolving in the right direction. We can assure you, there will be other modules and new functions, as sophisticated as this one, so go ahead, and check iGabinet website for more newest information.

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Our Programming Department has developed another robust optimization, in order to make the workflow and user-experience of iGabinet even better. This time the huge update has been made to the mechanism of patients’ diseases management and description, which is fully compliant to the international ICD-10 specification.

The new allows easy ascribing the illness to a patient as a part of the description of his visit. This make it possible to specify the present diseases of the patient, his chronic diseases, as well as all his past diseases, along with very precise dates that each particular disease was diagnosed, has started and ended. It enables the access to the full history of the patients’ diseases or illnesses.

The list of available diseases is fully compliant with the international ICD-10 specification, which makes it possible to offer an additional value for your foreign patients, who can obtain their medical specification of the treatment in their own language. This was another frequent request from our clients.

The use of the new mechanism is traditionally, very easy and intuitive. It doesn’t require any use of keyboard, while all the operations can be done with the use of mouse, thanks to the brand new interface.

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It is our great pleasure to announce, we have implemented a brand-new module for easy import data into iGabinet. The solution has been made especially for those of you, who are using another system and want to move to iGabinet. The new solution does the job, really easily within minutes.

Lots of people interested in using iGabinet, who were already using different system, kept asking us the same question: is it possible to quickly move all the data gatherd in the old system. So far, the only solution was to copy and paste those information manually. The problem was, that in some cases, the amount of the information to be rewritten, was huge and would require many hours of work.

The main purpose and goal of iGabinet is to maximize the efficiency of your work and to automate many time-consuming processes, therefore we have given the highest priority to create the solution that would automate this particular process and to speed it up in general. In effect, a new module has been developed, that allows to import the data into iGabinet within minutes with ease.

iGabinet by using its import module, gets the data from the .csv file (which is one of the most popular, and widely supported format). Afterwards it allows you to edit the representation of the data and to connect the source data from the file, to the target data in iGabinet. The last thing you need to do is to confirm the operation and to relax, while the system will do the rest for you.

There is also a good news for those of you that would like to use both systems simultaneously. It is possible to store the settings you once define, so that another time savings can be obtained. Once you define the settings for the data you want to import, each next data import can be made within seconds.

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