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In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] writes >In a message dated 09/10/96 19:09:03, David Brown writes: > >>Unfortunately no record is kept within VAMP Medical if a claim was sent >>or not! This is the same with all other IOS Claims at present. >>-- > >So you have to keep a paper record separately to log the claims so you can do >a reconciliation when the statement of fees paid comes. This is the same as We try to be paper free. While no 'flag' is kept of wether a claim has been sent there is a computer record of the entry that generated it. The IOS software keeps a record of claims sent but this is not within VAMP Medical but on the DOS box used for transmissions. >us mortals who cant afford the hardware upgrade to move to the software that >will log such claims. Why bother with what is in effect double data entry? double data entry sounds like double entry book-keeping, a rather Victorian habit! Surely. >How do paperless practices keep the required audit trail if the system can't >log the claim? When the thought police come round in a couple of years and >there is no record of the consultation linked to the claim on the computer there is a same dated record on the computer of course! >record, you might have to pay back a lot of money! -- David J Brown %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%