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Planning, installing, and upgrading

What's New for Centricity Practice Solution
 

For system planners, installers, administrators, and users. Centricity Practice Solution 2006 release notes include an overview of new features and the latest information required for installation and upgrade.

System Requirements for Centricity Practice Solution
 

For system planners, installers, and administrators. Includes comprehensive hardware and software requirements, an overview of features that impact hardware/software decisions, and planning tips and worksheets for hardware, security, and software interfaces.

Calculating Hardware Requirements for Centricity Practice Solution
 

For system planners, installers, and administrators. Enter information about your system and organization into this Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to calculate required memory requirements.

Planning and Installing Centricity Practice Solution in a WTS/Citrix Environment
 

For system planners, installers, and administrators. Contains configuration requirements, planning and implementing tips, installation and basic configuration instructions, and bit-rate analyses.

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Using and setting up the application

back to top Getting help with Centricity Practice Solution
 

All users. Click F1 anywhere in Centricity Practice Solution for detailed help for the feature or module you are using. Click F1 in the Administration module for help configuring the application. Click F1 in Server Setup for help installing / updating the application and other configuration tasks.

back to top Getting started with Centricity EMR
 

For EMR users. Designed for new users who want to understand how the EMR application works and how to integrate it into their clinic workflows. This guide to Centricity 2005 EMR application common clinical workflows and tasks helps you quickly learn the skills to use EMR in a clinic environment.

back to top Learning to use Centricity EMR
 

For EMR users. Self-paced tutorial on basic EMR clinical and administrative tasks created for Centricity EMR 2005. Includes exercises designed for use in the tutorial database.

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Using software interfaces

Managing Interfaces with Centricity Practice Solution
 

For interface developers, system planners, and interface managers. Resources to support implementation and maintenance of software interfaces required to import and export clinical data and patient information. Includes all LinkLogic and MIK (Millbrook Interface Kit) HL7 and ASTM interface specifications, an overview of LinkLogic and LinkLogic Manager tasks, and other resources such as LinkLogic error codes and a guide to using Sockets.

Configuring and using Centricity Practice Solution interfaces
 

Press F1 for detailed online help on MIK configuration screens in Server Setup, on LinkLogic and DTS modules and configuration screens, and in Administration > System > LinkLogic screens.

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Clinical tools
Back to top Creating Clinical Content for EMR (with Encounter Form Editor)
 

For clinical content developers. Use Encounter Form Editor to MEL programming language to customize EMR encounter forms for clinical data entry and create other clinical content such as patient letters, handouts, document templates, text components, patient banners, and letterheads. Includes step-by-step instructions and programming references. Also accessible from Encounter Form Editor Help button.

Back to top Getting help with data symbols and MEL
 

For EMR users and clinical content developers. Click F1 in the Chart module and open Symbols online help for detailed information about data symbols used in EMR clinical content. Also available from the Encounter Form Editor Help button

Back to top Installing Encounter Form Editor
 

For EMR users. Step-by-step instructions for installing the clinical tool Encounter Form Editor on a workstation or laptop.

Back to top Using Formulary Editor
 

For health plans or EMR users. How to use Formulary Editor to create drug formularies for import and use in the EMR module. You can create open or closed formularies and specify preferred or alternative medications. Also accessible from Formulary Editor Help button.

Back to top Installing Formulary Editor
 

For EMR users. Release notes and step-by-step instructions for installing the clinical tool Formulary Editor on a workstation or laptop.

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