Tricks of the Trade: MEDITECH NPR (Client Server) – MEDITECH Data Definitions, Only Easier

By: John Sharpe, President, Comstock Software, Inc. 

If you’ve been writing reports for awhile, you’ve found that MEDITECH Data Definitions are essential to your success in writing reports.  Report writers, everywhere, use them on a daily basis.   

Sleuthing through each application, module and segment looking for a field, CPT code for example; takes more time than you’d like.   You could be looking through ABS, BAR, OE and more - before finding what you were looking for. 

Maybe you know the field you need is located in ABS somewhere; you’ll still be looking through each module and segment to find the field you need. 

OR … you could download the MEDITECH Data Definitions and query them in a Microsoft Access Database as pictured below.

If you don’t use Microsoft Access, other viewing and searching options might include:

- Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL Database
- Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel 2007
- Notepad, or your favorite Text Editor - mine is TextPad.

Now by this time, you’re wondering how you can get access to the MEDITECH Data Definitions for your personal use.   If you work at a MEDITECH hospital and have access to the MEDITECH NPR Report Writer, you need the NPR report for the MEDITECH Data Definitions, to get it: click here.   Once you’ve loaded this NPR report into your TEST MEDITECH system, you can print the report to DOWNLOAD. 
 
In the near future, you'll receive more information on a FREE Workshop where you can learn more about querying the MEDITECH Data Definitions to write better reports.  To learn more, sign up for the MEDITECH Reports Blog via Email. 

In the meantime, won't you join some of the smartest people in the MEDITECH industry in asking and answering questions at the MEDITECH Knowledge Exchange?

Thoughts? Email them to John at jsharpe@comstock-software.com.

John Sharpe is President / NPR Consultant at Comstock Software, Inc. Learn more about NPR Report Writing at the MEDITECH NPR Report Writing Blog.