Later this year, Nuesoft will release Nuevita™, a fully integrated clinical and administrative software solution. In addition to its robust clinic management and billing functionality, Nuevita features a CCHIT Certified® electronic health record (EHR), complete with e-prescribing, a template and encounter type library, secure electronic faxing, custom flow sheets, lab interfaces and health maintenance tracking and reporting. With Nuevita, users will see the same easy-to-use, ultra secure, efficient and affordable solution that they have come to expect from other Nuesoft products. Read our fact sheet to learn more, and stay tuned for more information.

Nuesoft Xpress™ is pleased to bring you this segment of Ask the Expert, where our experts answer your questions about student health challenges that can be addressed through a technology solution. Prem Yadav is the director of product and software engineering at Nuesoft Technologies. View his response below to a question submitted by one of our readers. Question: Currently our students are mailing in immunization and insurance verification forms, causing many hours of data entry.  Is there a simpler solution to save time and allow students to complete their student health records online? —Question from a health center director in Virginia Answer: In the next couple of months, Nuesoft Xpress will be rolling out a new communications portal called Student [cont...]

Try this tip to help you get the most out of your Nuesoft Xpress system. Save time and effort while entering common transactions in tickets by utilizing macro type transactions. Macros make it easy to group multiple repetitive transactions into one, so, for example, you can enter one code for a yearly check-up instead of five. Many transaction types can be part of a macro, including charges, memos, messages, dates, and referrals. You may need to edit the individual transaction codes before saving the ticket. When you select a "macro" transaction type, a popup box will appear. Use this box to choose the transactions to combine into a macro. Select the appropriate transaction in the Available box by clicking to [cont...]

In the upcoming weeks, Nuesoft Xpress will release a new version of its Student Health Link™ secure, HIPAA-compliant portal, which will include a new look and feel, bidirectional messaging capabilities and enhanced usability. “We’re very excited about the new version,” said Nuesoft Technologies Director of Product and Software Engineering Prem Yadav. “We’ve taken into account user feedback, and have made the user interface more practical. We’ve also reskinned the product to be more appealing to student users.” In addition to the new, hip look and more intuitive navigation, Student Health Link now gives students the ability to communicate directly with their school’s health or counseling center. After completing a simple registration process, students can also send messages, and update immunization [cont...]

Hot Tip from Nuesoft Xpress™: Password expiration dates Try this tip to help you get the most out of your Nuesoft Xpress™ system. To add extra security to your system you can assign expiration dates to passwords. Here’s how it works: Go to Home> Settings> Account. Mark the Age Passwords checkbox; a box with available times appears. Select the amount of time you want required between password changes. When the user logs in and his/her password has expired, the Change Password dialog box appears. Enter the old password and then enter the new password twice and click OK. Remember: New passwords must contain eight to 15 characters with at least six letters and two numbers. At least one upper case [cont...]

Nuesoft Xpress™ is pleased to bring you this segment of Ask the Expert, where our experts answer your questions about student health challenges that can be addressed through a technology solution. Steven Wooten, MBA, MS is the director of training, implementation and documentation at Nuesoft Technologies. View his response below to the question submitted by one of our readers. Question: We are a small college in Pennsylvania. Currently, students have to file their own claims with insurance carriers, but we’re coming under some pressure to start billing the one insurance carrier that provides our college’s health insurance policy ourselves. The only software we have at the moment is an off-the-shelf electronic scheduler and we’re concerned that billing manually will drain [cont...]

We observed Nuesoft’s 15-year anniversary in student health at the American College Health Association (ACHA) conference in Orlando, Fla. in June. Celebrations included a 15-year reception for all Nuesoft Xpress clients, an ACHA booth event for all conference attendees, and a raffle drawing for free Nuesoft Xpress software. 15 Years: A Cause for Celebration At the reception, more than 60 Nuesoft Xpress clients helped celebrate our anniversary with drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Nuesoft Technologies President and CEO Massoud Alibakhsh gave a presentation highlighting the ways that trends and technology have evolved since 1993, and presented the spring Nuesoft Xpress 15-year scholarship winners with commemorative diplomas. “It was great to celebrate this milestone in Nuesoft’s history with our clients at ACHA,” [cont...]

Nuesoft Technologies is excited to announce the release of Nuesoft Xpress™ Version 3.07. The new version features a coding module and advanced electronic chart management, plus enhancements to existing modules including the ability to add attachments to the appointment scheduler, track patient languages in the patient module and a new warning message before transmitting duplicate statements. Additionally, users will notice a new, more contemporary look and feel to Nuesoft Xpress™. A breakdown of the new release: Security Upgrade To keep your data as secure as possible, specifications for passwords have changed. New passwords must contain between eight and 15 characters with at least six letters and two numbers. The password also requires at least one upper case and one lower [cont...]

Try this tip to help you get the most out of your Nuesoft Xpress™ system. With the recent release of Nuesoft Xpress™ version 3.07, a new feature has been added that allows universities to choose which identifying number appears on reports. To ensure HIPAA compliancy and protect privacy, users now have the option to choose from social security, student identification or chart numbers to appear on walkout statements and other reports. Here’s how it works: On the home screen of Nuesoft Xpress™ click on Settings and then Account. Once you are in the account, click on the Reports tab on the tab bar. Here you can select Chart Number, Student Number, or Social Security Number. Once you have selected your [cont...]

Many Health Centers Still Have Questions about Planning for a Pandemic January is traditionally a time for seasonal flu, but last month’s Nuesoft Xpress College Health Roundtable proved that a different strain of Influenza is foremost in the minds of college health professionals. Entitled "Pandemic Planning: Preparing Your Campus", the session was presented by Anita Barkin, DrPH, MSN, CRNP, chair of ACHA’s pandemic planning committee and student health service director at Carnegie Mellon, and also featured panelist John Covely, pandemic planning consultant and co-author of UNC at Chapel Hill’s pandemic plan. More than 70 people registered for the discussion, and the questions raised indicated that many campuses have started planning, but that firming up the practicalities, such as how much [cont...]