[MT-L] Meditech 6.0 - Scheduling NPR Reports
Chastene Mullins
Hello,
Thank you in advance for any input anyone may provide.
We went live with Meditech 6.0 PP 6 April 1 and we have several NPR reports we had scheduled to run at certain times. Can you provide how you are scheduling and/or running your NPR reports?
Thank you,
Chastene Mullins
Systems Analyst
Good Shepherd Health System, Inc.
Administrative Services Organization
700 E Marshall Ave
Longview, TX 75601
Phone: 903-315-5106
Fax: 903-315-2291
Cook Chandra C.
I found this KB Article on scheduling NPR reports. RD is different.
https://www.meditech.com/kb/Custform.ASP?urn=45063
Chandra Cook
Information Technology Department
Randolph Hospital
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Gary Hall
Like in Magic, we execute the report, with the appropriate sliding date scale (the T-1/S or MB-1/S stuff, etc.), click the Schedule button (rather than Print or Preview), and then enter the required information on the three-page scheduling screen. One nice thing is that you don’t have to have, for ex, a separate entry for every single user who needs a daily census – you can put them all on one if you’re sending this via internal e-mail. FYI, we haven’t been able in most cases to get e-mail to work for scheduled report delivery by using the user’s mnemonic from the Person dictionary. We have to, instead, use the “longhand” form of their e-mail address (gh...@epmedcenter.com).
We also send reports to print, but I think you can only send to one printer in each scheduled entry. Interestingly, it appears that you can send to both a printer AND to e-mails on the same scheduled report.
RD reports are handled a little different, but the net result is the same.
We did have challenges with printing scheduled reports, and Meditech 6.x’s interesting relationship to our 32-bit print server (it has to be 32, unfortunately). We had to tighten up some of our printer definitions, since Meditech 6.x scheduled reports need to be able to find the printer by name.
Now that we’re into it, it’s working pretty well.
Gary
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Hello,
Chastene Mullins
Question. Did you place all your “special” NPR report onto a menu? I ask a have several reports that I monitor daily and if one fails, it would be best to have just one menu to go to.
Thank you,
Chastene
Gary Hall
I had in Magic a “Gary’s reports” or “IT Reports” menu. On it, I had all the little utility NPRs I wrote over the year: Getting an ADM urn from an account number, listing all NUR queries for a patient, and a hundred others. I haven’t created one yet in 6.x, but I’ll bet I will soon…
Gary
Julia Carter
Hey, Gary,
When I was scheduling NPR and standard reports at my last 6.0 client, I wanted some to email to users and also download to a network folder. For those, I had to create a separate schedule for each destination – folder or email. I had very few to print, but I think I had to do separate schedules for those as well.
The IT director and I created a ‘master’ BAR reports menu, including all the standard reports and NPR so that the BAR users can access more easily. While I get Meditech’s intent to include standard reports with each unique area – claims, bills, etc – it’s not user friendly for a billing director new to Meditech to locate and access his favorites.
The IT director and I are doing a MUSE presentation on the challenges we faced with financial reporting and how we leveraged the combination of BAR compiled reports with NPR and report scheduling to provide the users with specific reports delivered conveniently.
Julia
Gary Hall
Great info. In Magic, I created a lot of reports that kicked off from CDSs, sometimes using built-in delays on reports, and lots of other fancy things I could do in Magic NPR RW. Some I don’t think I can do in 6.0, or haven’t figured out yet.
Yeah, you’re probably right about the folder vs e-mail separation. Thanks, Julia!
Gary
Chastene Mullins
Hello Everyone,
I have another question concerning reports.
Does Meditech 6.0 allow you to output your report to .csv format? If so, how? Is it a report setup itself or on the scheduling side of it.
Thank you for any assistance provided.
Gary Hall
In NPR RW, at least, you can still use the “download” option on reports, to a txt file, which can then be uploaded (manually, or probably via a script if someone knows how) into a spreadsheet.
Chastene Mullins
Thank you Gary.
I scheduled a report to run at 3 a.m. and noticed it’s not actually running. Is there a step I’m missing to make sure it runs?
Julia Carter
I haven't been able to and NPR expert Lianne Elliott has told me it can't be done. I'd love to hesr if somebody has been able to push this envelope!
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Doug Hogue
Both report designer and report writer allow for the scheduling of reports. You can also set the reports to download on schedule. You would have to set your report up as a CSV report and schedule it to download. One thing to keep in mind, if you are trying to save the file somewhere other than the background job server that the report scheduler daemon is on you will have to work with the folder permissions on the destination folder. It depends on how the daemon is set to run and with what account. Thanks Doug
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You can use a comma for a field delimiter on non-standard (custom) reports you write via NPR. However commas present problems, so a pipe or semi colon is often recommended.
Standard reports can’t be saved/downloaded as a comma delimited file.
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