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The Files Inbox makes your clinic’s life easier by providing a quick and easy way to send attachments to your account and make them accessible to the entire practice.

For a while now, Atlas.md has enabled users to assign file inbox items to patients to keep better track of things like lab results and other external documents. Today, we’re extending that same functionality to companies.

Now, when you receive a contract, invoice, or any external document, you can assign that file inbox item to a company in the same way that you would to a patient.

Simply email files (or scan them to Dropbox or Google Drive) to your files inbox, then assign them to the appropriate company in order to keep all of your paperwork coordinated correctly.

We’re confident that this feature will help streamline processes for companies that deal with employment contracts and need to keep track of large amounts of paperwork.

If you have any questions about assigning file inbox items to companies, please don’t hesitate to drop us a line at support@atlas.md.

A while back we released the custom form feature that allows users to create custom forms to gather patient data. Today we’re expanding on that feature with the introduction of multiple-choice questions.

This expansion means that you can now include multiple-choice questions when building custom forms. The questions will display as a series of checkboxes that patients can mark when filling out the form.

This feature enhances the data collection process and is particularly useful for collecting information that may have more than one single answer in a form. It also makes building forms much more flexible.

If you have any questions about the multiple-choice form questions, please don’t hesitate to drop us a line at support@atlas.md.

We subscribe to the theory that the more information a doctor or pharmacist has about a particular subject or situation, the better informed their medical decisions. And so from that point of view, we’re happy to announce the addition of weight and height information on prescriptions issued through Atlas.md.

Why is this important? Well, it means both doctor and pharmacist will have all the necessary information in situations where prescriptions have to be issued, and the weight and height of a patient are important for accurately and safely dispensing medication.

There are two different ways that the height and weight information will find its way onto a prescription:

• Users can enter the information manually when creating a prescription, or
• Atlas.md will automatically include a patient’s height and weight from the most recent vitals reading if it’s available (you can edit this value before the prescription is issued)

Once entered, the information will appear directly on the prescription when it is printed or faxed to a pharmacy.

This is just another step we’re taking to make prescribing medication that much safer, easier, and more accurate.

If you have any questions about height and weight metrics and how they relate to prescriptions, please don’t hesitate to drop us a line at support@atlas.md.

It’s no secret that vitals and stats are important markers for tracking a patient’s health and wellbeing. While you’re already able to pull vitals and stats reports, with our latest update you can now export vitals and stats alongside other patient data through the Export Patient Details feature.

Once exported, it can then be interpreted and manipulated outside of Atlas.md with Excel and other spreadsheet applications.

This feature will provide you access to bigger data sets about your patients that will let you more easily see statistics and trends that require special attention. For example, you can create clusters of patients based on their BMI, age, sleep patterns, and more!

If you have any questions about exporting vitals and stats, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at support@atlas.md.

Patients come in all shapes and sizes – and names! And some of those names can be quite similar, especially if you have a large panel with dozens of Johns, Janes, Smiths, Smits, Browns, and Brauns. To help you make sure you’re looking at the correct patient’s chart, we’ve made some improvements to our similar name identifier.

Currently, when you’re looking at the chart of a patient that has a similar name to another patient, we’ll notify you on the off chance that you’re looking at the wrong chart.

Now, you can click on the notification (the large red exclamation point next to a patient’s name) and we’ll show you a list of patients with similar names so that if you were on the wrong chart, you can find your way to the correct one.

If you have any questions about the similar name identifier, please don’t hesitate to drop us a line at support@atlas.md.

No one likes reading walls of text. To help make notes more readable and better organize your thoughts, we’ve introduced text formatting.

This means you can now use bolding, italics, lists, and more to make your notes easier to read. Check out this Text Formatting Guide we put together to better understand how this content formatting works. For those of you familiar with Markdown formatting, this will be a breeze!

We’re confident that text formatting will make jotting down notes and sending instructions (among other things) that much easier and more effective.

If you have any questions about how text formatting works, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at support@atlas.md.

In this next round of updates, we’ve turned our attention to improving the custom notes function that many of our users use to document patient well-being and provide updates to other medical professionals.

Save draft function

For added peace of mind when writing notes, we’ve introduced a way of actively saving anything you’ve already written. While notes already have an autosave feature, the ability to actively save drafts means you can decide when exactly you want to save your drafts, giving you control over when you want to save your work, and allowing you to come back to unfinished notes. Pending drafts will be visible in the header of your patients’ charts, so you can easily find any notes you were working on.

Custom form notes

When emailing forms to your patients, you may want to go into specific details about the form, particular conditions, or any other instructions. With custom form notes you can easily add a short, customized note that will accompany the email to your patient with the link to the form. The custom note has macros integration so you can automate commonly-used instructions or observations.

Macros for lab data

In order to provide easier ways to reference data points from imported lab results, we’ve now integrated Atlas.md’s macro autocompleter. This means you can now use the macro shortcuts #trend and #result to pull up the latest results for your patients. 

For example, if you want to reference the latest lab result concerning Triglycerides, you can type “#resulttrig” and Atlas.md will search for all matching data points.

This streamlines the process of attaching lab results to patient charts, as well as emailing report notes to patients and other doctors.

And that’s it! We’re really excited and confident that these notes will make your job that much easier. If you have any questions about how any of these updates work, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at support@atlas.md.

Summer is finally here, and along with the sunshine we have a number of feature updates to share. We’ve focused the lion’s share of our efforts on improving features related to appointments, and we’re confident that these updates will make scheduling consultations that much more efficient.

Custom appointment notes

When creating appointments or notifying patients you may want to go into a little more detail about what the patient can expect from the appointment. With custom appointment notes you can now easily add a short customized note so that your patients are better informed about any upcoming consultations. These notes also work with macros integration, a powerful tool that allows you to create templates for your most-used appointment notes.

New appointment recurrence options

We’ve also extended the number of available recurrence options for appointments. Before, appointments could only recur on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. Now, we’ve added 14-, 21-, and 28-day recurrences to repeating appointments for greater flexibility when scheduling consultations.

Emergency contact categorization

In an emergency, it’s important to have as much information as possible. With that in mind, we wanted to make it easy to classify the relationship between a patient and their emergency contact(s). With emergency contact categorization, you can now easily specify this relationship in your patient’s chart.

That’s it for now. We have some more updates coming very soon, but in the meantime, we hope these features improve your Atlas.md experience. If you have any questions about any of the updates, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at support@atlas.md.