Category Archives: What’s New

At Atlas, we’re always looking for ways to streamline the prescription process and make getting necessary medicine to patients as easy as possible. With our new QR Refill feature, we’re putting the convenience of remote refill requests into the hands of patients and providing doctors with more choice on how they want to handle refills.

Precision Prescribing

One of the main benefits of running an in-house pharmacy is being able to dispense the exact amount of medication that a patient requires. This reduces the risk of both overprescription and general waste. Once a patient runs out of medication, however, acquiring a refill becomes a bit tricky.

Typically the patient would have to call a clinic and speak to a doctor or physically visit the clinic in order to request a refill. In some cases, the clinic in question might reach out to the patient before their medication runs out. Both scenarios are time-consuming.

Rapid Refills

With the new QR Refill feature, doctors now have the option of including a QR code on prescription labels and medication bottles. Once a patient’s medication runs out, they can request a refill simply by scanning the QR code with their smartphone.

Once the QR code of a label has been scanned, the doctor who dispensed the medication will receive a notification asking them to approve or dismiss the prescription refill request. This eliminates the need for patient calls and visits with regards to prescription refills, saving massive amounts of time for both doctors and patients.

Activation Required

As a precaution against disrupting our users’ current dispensing and refill processes, QR Refills are disabled for existing Altas.md accounts, so you’ll have to enable the feature before you and your patients can start using it. All Atlas.md accounts registered after the rollout of this feature, however, will have the feature enabled by default. Check out our help article for information about enabling QR Refills.

If you have any questions regarding QR Refills, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at support@atlas.md.

We want to thank our Atlas users and all of you in the healthcare field for everything you’re doing to help keep the world moving forward in these strange times. Though Atlas.md is always pushing ahead, we’ve held off on publishing a few new features until the time was right. The last thing we wanted to do was distract our users with changes that required their attention during a stressful time. But we have been watching how you’ve been using Atlas during this new normal, and we want to highlight a few minor upgrades that we hope will help.

Revised Growth Charts

After quite a few user requests, we recently replaced traditional growth charts with a tabular version to allow for more flexibility when calculating percentiles from both the CDC and the WHO datasets. However, after launching and receiving feedback, we quickly realized that many users also prefer visual graphs. With those responses in mind, we’ve revised growth charts to include both growth percentile tables and visual charts with CDC information.

Improved Family Management

We’ve introduced a new Family Management page that lets you manage and review family members, and provides a clear breakdown of their status within Atlas.md. From there you now also have the option to change the Head of Household, rename the family, and more.

Improved Video Calling

Video calling is now supported by most major browsers, the only exception being Chrome on devices using an iOS operating system. On top of that, doctors can now send out multiple video call invites to different patients which will be answered on a first-come-first-served basis should two or more patients answer simultaneously. These video invites can now be sent via SMS and email. 

Companies Collection List

Companies can now be added to the collections list in the same way that patients can. This makes it easier to see which companies are falling behind in their payments, and to organize them in a single localized list.

Employee Enrollment Customization

We’ve been devoting quite a bit of time to making Atlas.md more accessible for companies, starting with improvements to the Employee Enrollment feature. When creating enrollment forms for employees, users can now include their own fully customized enrollment fees. This provides users with the flexibility and specificity to fine-tune their fees based on the employer and their respective offerings.

Any Questions?

We hope you’re happy with the improvements we’ve made. If you have any suggestions or questions you’d like answered, don’t hesitate to get in touch at support@atlas.md.

At Atlas, we believe that equipping doctors with the latest tools is one of the most effective ways of helping them provide quality healthcare. In the latest update, in an effort to push the boundaries on what Atlas can deliver, we’ve partnered with DrFirst to give doctors the capacity to prescribe and manage medication electronically.

Putting Doctors First with DrFirst and Rcopia

DrFirst is a company specializing in healthcare solutions and medical software. They offer numerous tools and services aimed at streamlining the process of managing and prescribing medication, and we’ve teamed up with them in order to equip Atlas with e-prescription capabilities utilizing their prescription software, Rcopia.

Once Atlas is integrated with Rcopia you’ll be able to simply and electronically prescribe medication to your patients. You’ll also have full control over the prescriptions and their quantities using Rcopia’s inventory management system. This doesn’t mean there’ll be any extra administration or number-crunching. All actions taken within Rcopia are automatically synchronized in Atlas, ensuring your patient charts and prescription histories are always up to date.

To get started with Rcopia, you’ll first need to register. Get in touch with us and, together with DrFirst, we’ll guide you through the process step by step. For more information about registering, check out our help article.

Once Rcopia is successfully integrated you’ll be able to access it via a new eRx button on your Atlas interface. From here you’ll easily be able to prescribe medication to patients and manage your e-prescriptions.

With DrFirst you’ll also be able to enroll in a prescription drug monitoring program, or PDMP. You can find more information about PDMPs here.

If you have any other questions, please drop us a line at support@atlas.md.

Data has an unruly habit of accumulating in huge quantities in short spaces of time, so it’s important to be able to sift through it all when you’re looking for something specific. Atlas’ new Chart Filtering feature allows you to do just that.

Now, instead of having to manually search through charts for a diagnosis or prescription, you can now simply filter through chart streams based on criteria such as the date, author and the following data types:

• Notes
• External messages
• Tasks
• Appointments
• Attachments
• Diagnosis
• Prescriptions
• Labs
• Faxes
• Rubicon
• Form answers

You can access Chart Filtering by clicking on the cog menu within the patient chart page.

Chart Filtering is just another way in which Atlas is making it easier and faster for doctors to provide more informed healthcare to their patients.

Atlas has always allowed doctors to make their patients’ lives easier, but we also want to make it easy for doctors to help companies and businesses provide care for their employees.

Now, when companies request data and stats on their employees’ care, doctors can quickly pull, download, and email accurate reports to the companies they partner with.

With our new Utilization Report feature, clinics can check all of the following details about how employees are experiencing care with their clinic:

• Total # of patients
• Total # of appointments
• Total # of prescriptions
• Number of patients with at least 1 appointment
• In-house dispensed prescriptions
• Lab requests
• Lab results
• SMS messages
• Emails
• SMS Messages (outside office hours)
• Emails (outside office hours)
• Phone calls (outside office hours)

Businesses Can Now Track and Engagement

Utilization Reports make it possible for businesses to analyze their employees’ healthcare paths, but it’s also useful for clinics. Clinics are able to tweak existing offers and tailor new offers based on how employees are experiencing care.

Atlas.md makes it even easier for companies and individuals to get and give personalized care.

The name of the game is efficiency. Not speed. Not money. Not “let’s-see-how-many-people-we-can-fit-through-the-door-today.”

In DPC, a really big part of your goal is to do what you do well in a way that allows you to spend more time with patients. It’s that simple. It’s also the theme of this new feature release announcement.

Pay for Multiple Items at Once.

Allow your patients to pay for one single line item, or several all at once with the new multiple payments feature. Your point of sale process just got a lot easier for you and your patients. Learn how over here.

Better Patient Name Recognition.

Atlas’ code just got a little smarter. Now the algorithm will recognize when certain names might sound the same, and will flag them accordingly. For example, Johnson = Jonson = Johnsen. Slick, isn’t it?

Here’s the cherry on top. Now Atlas also does a better job of alerting you to double check you’re in the right spot if a name is flagged as ambiguous. We bet you won’t miss the alert flag up by the patient’s name…

Grandfathered Pricing.

Your practice will likely change shape a bit over the years, and that’s a good thing. Now you can update your pricing tier structure to accommodate for bringing in new patients at a higher monthly rate while allowing your existing patients to continue paying their current monthly fee.

You know the drill – it’s grandfathered pricing, and now Atlas has it. Get the details over here.

More Detailed Dispense History and Exported Report.

Atlas has added more data to the dispense history page and the dispense history report. This will be super helpful when you’re working with state agencies from a compliance perspective. Also, it means fewer clicks for you when you’re checking the items you’ve been dispensing. Win-win.

Better Bank Transfer Exports.

Your bank transfer export now features all the deets, including all payments involved in each payout.

This’ll be helpful for reconciliation work, or if you’re just looking up the status of each payment.

NDC Tracking on Allergies.

Now you can use the drug autocompleter when you’re entering an allergy. And if you pick an item from said autocompleter, it’ll be tracked as a drug allergy. Why this change? You guessed it – it’ll make your data entry process easier since you can choose from an autocompleted list.