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News release
6/01/2007
What's New In Version 5.3?
Version 5.3 of Sweet-CAD, Sweet-Billing, and Sweet-Field Data will be released this month. All three products contain a variety of fixes and minor enhancements, but there are some big things to talk about.
The major new item in Sweet-CAD 5.3 is an extension of the CAD system to be used in your vehicles. MobiCAD is installed on a laptop in each vehicle. In the vehicle, your crew members use MobiCAD to receive dispatch information from Sweet-CAD, view the locations of both the incident and their vehicle on a digital map, update their statuses, and send and receive text messages to/from dispatch.
MobiCAD:
- Eliminates the problem of information being misunderstood on the radio
- Eliminates the need for dispatchers to manually update vehicle statuses in Sweet-CAD
- Eliminates delays that happen in the field when the crew has difficulty getting the attention of dispatch
- Helps calm the dispatch center by automatically moving information to the crew in the field, instead of requiring the dispatcher to document information in Sweet-CAD and then relay the information to the crew over the radio.
Sweet-Billing and Sweet-Field Data have undergone the most sweeping changes, since the products were first introduced to the Windows platform, in order to achieve NEMSIS Gold Certification. For more information about NEMSIS, visit https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/693126035 to view a recording of the live webinar that we held in February that provides an overview of NEMSIS and what it means to your service.
NEMSIS certification has brought many new fields for information gathering to these products. In Sweet-Field Data, the new fields have not had the type of impact that they have had in Sweet-Billing. The transition for your crew members from version 5.2 to version 5.3 should not be a major event.
That’s not to say that version 5.3 is a non-event for Sweet-Field Data. Crew members will benefit from several new mini-features like: the APGAR score calculator, Pediatric Trauma Score Calculator, improvements to calculation of the Revised Trauma Score and more.
However in Sweet-Billing, the impact is much more apparent. New codes, tabs, and fields have been added to support the NEMSIS data elements and to improve the organization of data in Sweet-Billing in general.
Most of the data fields that have previously been presented in a grid on the Field Info tab have now been moved to new or existing tabs in the system. This means that Call Type setup can be used to turn these fields on/off and set defaults.
Our NEMSIS implementation gives new importance to company authorizations for customers with multiple directories. A new utility is included in 5.3 that allows management of company authorizations for codes across directories without having to access each individual code. Billing Service customers that have avoided using company authorizations in the past because of the setup time required will appreciate this utility.
You may find it helpful to review a webinar recorded on March 21 that provides additional information on what’s new in Sweet-Billing and Sweet-Field Data 5.3. Support Maintenance Customers can access this webinar on the Ortivus website in the "Recorded Webinar Center" behind the support logon, or click here: https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/472293178.
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About Ortivus:
Ortivus offers integrated software solutions for Emergency Medical Services and Public Safety. The North American Subsidiary develops and markets the following pre-hospital applications: EMS billing, patient care reporting, computer-aided dispatch, automatic vehicle location, mobile data application, and patient vital signs monitoring and data transmission.
The Ortivus vision is to be the customer’s preferred provider of integrated information and decision-making software support systems in the Emergency Medical Service, Public Safety and Healthcare industries.
Ortivus operates out of two North American corporate office locations (Decorah, Iowa, US and Montreal, Quebec, Canada), as well as several international locations (Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Great Britain).