| On May 12, 2003, the president of a family | | | | Vericle's reports include expectations management |
| practice clinic, a physician, and a nursing | | | | for both medical billing charges and payments, |
| informatics specialist won each first-place in a | | | | analysis of accounts receivable, medical billing |
| Microsoft Corp.-sponsored competition to honor | | | | compliance violations, and SOAP note tracking. To |
| innovative healthcare professionals. Entrants were | | | | take advantage of Vericle's export of medical |
| judged by a panel of Microsoft representatives | | | | billing data to Excel, follow a two-step procedure: |
| based on the number of features in Office they | | | | |
| were using, their productivity gains, and how | | | | 1. In Vericle |
| applicable the featured uses would be in other | | | | 2. Create desired medical billing report in Vericle, |
| healthcare settings. All three winners use Excel for | | | | sort it and filter according to requirements |
| financial reporting, data collection, or tracking | | | | 3. Click on Excel icon in the bottom left corner of |
| employee payroll and taxes the number and | | | | the window |
| types of office visits. | | | | 4. Select all data in the separate window that has |
| However, until recently, the use of Excel for | | | | the data (CNTRL-A) |
| medical billing analysis has been limited because of | | | | 5. Copy all data into the buffer (CNTRL-C) |
| the difficulty to produce effective ad hoc reports | | | | In the target Excel page, |
| and inability to export data into Excel. Vericle lifts | | | | |
| the limitation with its integrated medical billing | | | | 1. Place the cursor at a cell where you want the |
| reporting, Excel export capability, and a standard | | | | upper left corner of the copied data |
| data import capability into Microsoft Excel. | | | | 2. |