August is Woman's Month and Health Focus is celebrating with a Practice Management Workshop, hosted by Sarah Khan. This time in Cape Town. For more information, and to grab one of the 5 free seats on offer, read the flyer.

August is Woman's Month and Health Focus is celebrating with a Practice Management Workshop, hosted by Sarah Khan.

For more information, and to grab one of the 8 free seats on offer, read the flyer.

One of the worst types of calls Software Support receives is from practices who have had a hard drive crash or a server stolen and they want to know how to recover their data.  

The only way to do this is to have a recent, working, backup on hand.  

It doesn't help if your backup is a year old.  It doesn't help if the external drive you have backed up to doesn't work.  It doesn't help if you find out too late that your backup is corrupt.

There is a new version of Eminance just released.  Version 05.04.02 is now available.  There have been changes and improvements made to the Diary Notes with an increase to 255 characters for when you book an appointment.  

Diary printing changed: to save you paper we included the option to print only 1 diary line per patient and diary status.  

Our Software Support Centre will be closed from midday on Friday 24th December until 08h30 on Monday 3rd January 2022.

We will have two staff members on duty during the four working days that we will be closed. Please call our normal Software Support numbers for any assistance you may require.

You can now download the 2022 Medprax application forms directly from our website. Medprax is fully integrated into Eminance and ensures that you are using up to date valid Nappi codes, submitting correct SEP prices and applying the correct mark up, as specified by each medical aid. Besides a number of other options you can also identify when a reference price list applies to a specific medical aid such as MMAP, MRP and MPL. The service supplies essential, up to date medical aid, pharmaceutical and surgical product and price data to the South African healthcare industry.

One of the problems that practices face when confronted by a medical aid audit, is that the historical records are not available. Eminance keeps every single transaction since day one. That allows you to easily extract the information under query.

Under normal circumstances, a medical aid will audit you going back three or more years. Most practice management programs keep electronic transactions that are current and due. Eminance and its sophisticated engine allows you to store trillions of records, only limited by your disk capacity.

With the new round of power failures caused by Eskom, there has been an increase in the reports of computers been damaged and unable to boot up.

While we recommend an interrupted power supply or battery backup system for your computer, these too, sometimes fail. In many cases, once the computer has been repaired, Eminance just keeps on working.

However, in some cases, the hard drives are being damaged, resulting in having to install new units. In addition, some are taking advantage of the power failures (Eskom load shedding) and are replacing their computers.

Medprax and Eminance offer a product that gives instant access to the latest Medical Scheme Rates and Tariff codes for 2021

Automated Data updates for:

• 2021 Medical Scheme Rates (Non Contracted or Base Rate) published by Medical aids.
• 2021 Rand Conversion Factor (RCF) unit values for all disciplines per medical aid.
• GP Network Tariffs for 2021
• Payment Arrangements
• COID Tariffs

Fees: