Linking with Medical Director

NB: For both versions 1 & 2 .....Make sure you complete the following steps on every PracSoft workstation that may add or edit data plus on every Medical Director workstation that you wish to read the link file. At least one Medical Direcgtor workstation must read the link file. MEDICAL DIRECTOR MUST BE PHYSICALLY RUNNING ON AT LEAST ONE WORKSTATION THAT IS LINKED, FOR THE IMPORTING TO OCCUR.

PracSoft will write patient details to the PATIENTS.IN link file every time you add or edit a patient in PracSoft. It may take up to two minutes for Medical Director to read and import these details. Generally, the more workstations reading the link file, the faster the import will occur.

To activate the link from a PracSoft workstation...

• Open PracSoft (Start - Programs - PracSoft)
• On the Menu Bar click Setup - Script Export.
• Click MDW GENERIC ASCII v2. In the "Link File Name" field, type the "Patients files director" (taken from step 2), plus the "PATIENTS.IN" (e.g. C:\MDW2\PATIENTS.IN)

NB: The November 99 release of Medical Director has a 'Read Link File' program that can run on your Server, without needing to run an instance of Medical Director. Contact Medical Director for information on how to implement this.

Linking with Medical Director Version 2

If you are not using the new facility on the Server, do the following...

• Open Medical Director.
• On the Menu Bar click Tools - Options.
• Click on the Network tab. Write down the "Patients files directory".
• Click on the Links tab. Click Link to billing package. Set it to GENERIC ASCII v2. Set the "Path to transfer file" to to be the same as the "Patients files directory". Tick "Read link file from this workstation".
• Click Save.

TIP: You may need to close Medical Director and open it again for these settings to take. You should be prompted if this is required.

Linking with Medical Director Version 1

1. Open Medical Director.
2. On the Menu Bar click Options - Network Setup. Write down the Network Path (i.e. "the path to the sub-directory where data files can be found"). Click OK.
3. On the Menu Bar click Options - Link Options. Select GENERIC ASCII v2. Tick the "Linking to billing package" and "Read link file from this workstation". It does not matter whether you tick "Delete link file after reading".

   TIP: You may need to close Medical Director and open it again for these settings to take. You should be prompted if this is required.

4. Open PracSoft (Start - Programs - PracSoft).
5. On the Menu Bar click Setup - Script Export...
6. Click MDW GENERIC ASCII v2. In the "Link File Name" field, type the "Patients files directory" (taken from step 2), plus "PATIENTS.IN" (e.g. C:\MDW2\PATIENTS.IN).