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• My 14-inch monitor is too small to use with ComChart. How come I can not see the entire screen on my 14-inch monitor?
  ComChart recommends you use a computer screen with a resolution of at least 600 x 800 and preferrably 700 x 1000 (or greater.)
• Where do you put pathology reports, stress test, PFT results, echocardiogram reports and imaging reports?
  

  Currently, progress notes can be given a “classification” as either dietary, email, graphics, in-coming letter, labs, referral, pathology, progress notes, reports and stress tests. The user can modify this list at ComChart> Administration> Lists> Pop-up lists. This data can only be changed using the master password (password protection is disabled in the demo and single user versions). Once you establish you own classification method, your progress notes can be stored and examined by classification. For example, you may ask ComChart to show you only all the patients “pathology” reports or “Hospital discharge summaries.”

  We recommend that the imaging reports be stored in the x-rays file.

• How do enter EKGs?
  Go to the patient's progress note, click on the "options" button and then the "create graphics" button. Using a drawing or painting program, “copy” the entire EKG then "paste" the graphical image of your EKG into the large empty space in this newly created progress note.
• How do I get ComChart to print my envelopes to one printer, prescriptions to a second printer and other documents to a third printer?
  The underlying language of ComChart is FileMaker Pro 5. The selection of your printer is controlled by your computer's operating system and cannot be controlled by FileMaker Pro 5/ComChart. The solution is to use one printer for all of your printing needs. ComChart can then be set to automatically select an envelope (from the envelope tray) or plain paper, as needed. This can be accomplished using most laser printers and with some ink-jet printers. It will require that you have access to the scripting language (which is only available to those who have purchased ComChart.) There are also inexpensive commercial plug-ins that you can buy to work with ComChart that will allow you to work with a second printer.
• In many places the column headings are underlined. What does this mean?
  

  When a column heading is underlined, it implies either 1) that the button has a second, less obvious function which can be initiated by holding down the shift key when you click on the button or 2) you can sort the data by clicking on the underlined heading For example, the lab results layout has three of the headings underlined: the patient name, the test name, and the date of the test. The data can be sorted chronologically by clicking on the date, it can be sorted by patient name by clicking on the patient name heading, and it can be sorted by test name by clicking on the test name heading.

  In the clinical summary layout, the name “Medicine list” is underlined. When you click on it, it will print the medicine list. Throughout ComChart, you will also see the patient’s name, underlined. When you click on it, you will be taken to the patient’s progress notes. If you hold down the shift key when you click on the patient name, you will be taken to a progress note layout that shows all the associated diagnosis.

• Why, when you are typing the progress notes, does the TAB key get you into another field? This is a quite tedious, as I am accustomed to using TAB to start a new paragraph.
  In FileMaker Pro, the tab key moves your insertion point into a new field. To insert a tab character into a field: Click where you want to insert the tab, then press Ctrl-Tab (Windows) or Option-Tab (Mac OS). FileMaker sets the default tabs at a fixed interval, however the user can change this as per the FileMaker instructions.