Recent Ascend-HI News !

Look for us at the National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) meeting March 8-11, 2006. 

Rock-Pond Solutions has expanded the abilities of their “Home Infusion Reports” product to include Hann’s On Software’s Ascend-HI program.   Please visit www.homeinfusionreports.com for more information.

Our interface with Pyxis auto-dispensing systems is already available for Ascend-HI customers.  Furthermore, Hann's On Software currently offers ADT interfaces (Admission, discharge, transfer, etc.) with other vendors, so you don't have to manually enter patient intake data. Click here to learn more about our interfaces.

Hann's On Software announces a new interface with AmerisourceBergen

Home HealthCare Laboratory of America and Hann's On Software provide their mutual customers with enhanced laboratory results reporting at no additional cost!

Recent New Ascend-HI Program Features

• Customers can "turn off" drug interaction (DI) warnings for selected drug pairs. 
• Other inventory items can be linked to a particular inventory record; selection of the item will cause linked items to also be added to the order. 
• Drug label warnings can be inserted at the bottom of your order labels.
• Add financial "Notes" to the patients profile
• The "Interfaces" tab lets you configure Ascend-HI to send ADT, Orders and Inventory messages to other vendors via the Ascend Interface Engine.
• AmerisourceBergen InterfaceAn optional interface program is now available to allow Ascend-HI purchase orders to be imported directly into AmerisourceBergen's "Echo" product. This will save Echo users significant time in sending their orders to AmerisourceBergen. The Ascend-HI/Echo interface program can be licensed separately from Hann's On Software.
• Pictures of your patients can be linked to their record for easy access within the Ascend-HI program. 
• View your patient's medication history over several admissions.
• Use order entry codes to automatically schedule medication doses for your patients; useful for ambulatory infusion centers/infusion suites.
• Access a state website from within Ascend-HI to validate any physician's state license and expiration
• User-defined "data views" (i.e., customize queries) allow you to configure Ascend-HI to present your data "your way". 
• CURES controlled substances data export
• Web-based laboratory results reporting: HOS now provides its Ascend-HI customers with a direct web-link to laboratory results from Home HealthCare Laboratory of America (HHLA).  Contact HHLA and for more information on this service.
• Security records can be configured to allow users to enter only certain order types (e.g., supplies)
• Pharmacists can edit orders they have entered, but prevent other users from editing them
• Charge transaction merging is now partially automated
• The "TPN Data Sheet" provides a concise clinical summary of your patient's TPN statistics and TPN formulation
• You can associate a "chair" to any patient and reserve a particular location (chair, bed, etc) when you schedule a patient for future services.
• Orders can be optionally scheduled using regular or irregular dosing intervals.
• Nursing visits can be scheduled and documented on the patient's profile.
• Reminder messages for backups can have user-defined intervals, or can be turned off
• AHI can automatically contact the HOS website to extend your update reminder and license for an additional time period.
• You can optionally associate hospitals, units and rooms-beds with any of your patients
• Inventory items can be selected by description, NDC number or by charge code at order time.
• BSA calculations include the “Gehan and George”, “Mosteller”,  “DuBois and “Haycock” formulas
• A barcode has been added to the patient's intake form for patient identification purposes
• Purchase orders can be created in the inventory control area
• A barcode can be assigned to an inventory item
• Patients can be selected by name, patient Id, medical record number, social security number, HICN and by Ascend-HI's internal reference number
• A "dosing data" screen displays body surface area, ideal body weight and ideal dosing weight
• Medication doses can now be calculated by patient weight.  You can enter the dose on a "per kg" basis, or as an absolute amount, and any missing data will be calculated and displayed automatically
• Specify a default number of labels to print for each order type
• See DME orders that are either active or discontinued and for which the DME item has not been returned.
• Security Groups have been added to the program.
• Delivery tracking to cover ANY carrier (FedEx, UPS, etc.).
• AHI scans your ANSI X12 837 batch claims and advises you of any missing required fields.
• “Clinical document” templates can be assigned to facilities.
• ”Multi-Facility” customers can link inventory items across facilities.
• Inventory security can be customized down to the field level.
• A new option tells the program to automatically keep going to the next pricing rule until a price has been calculated. 
• Pricing rules can have an expiration date.
• A new “Inventory Group” filter is provided for DME reports.
• An order can be linked to a room assignment to automatically appear on the patient’s profile.
• A new security option allows administrators to require a workstation program update when a new version is available.
• Inventory record changes can be “pushed” to multiple facilities if desired.
• Ascend-HI now supports the new First Databank NDDF Plus database.
• During order entry, if the program warns you that an item isn't in stock, a new administrative setting can require that another item be selected. These warnings can be pre-set at an inventory record level and/or globally.
• The program allows you to pre-schedule room/bed/chair assignments.
• “Billing messages” stored in inventory records can display on billing the item.
• A “physical description” field has been added to each inventory record.
• All price changes (Cost, AWP, Red Book, Retail and ASP) are logged.
• You can optionally require that orders be “confirmed”.
• You can create different security groups (pharmacists, billers, etc.) and create “permissions” for each group.
• Billers can be assigned to specific payers so they only see their payers during financial processes.
• The First Databank search screen displays the unit AWP price and the package AWP price.
• A User can be assigned access to all facilities if desired.
• The program will ask the user which primary payer should be billed if more than one is assigned to the patient.
• A security option prevents editing an order after it has been billed.
• Order prescription counter options include “Rx Counter 1”, “Rx Counter 2” and “Supply Counter 1”.
• You can create a link to your own custom help document (Microsoft Word file) in the Ascend-HI Help menu. Doctor “specialties” are now user-defined.
• Minimum/Maximum dosing ranges include 3 categories: pediatric, adult and geriatric. 
• Required fields are readily apparent on the admission screen.
• A quick “profile view” option displays refill quantities and authorized refills.
• You can assign an order type to a common order at order entry time or it can be pre-assigned in the common order template.
• The “Payer Policy Number”, “Payer Group” and “Payer Subscriber” fields are now included in our HHLA laboratory interface messages.
• Drug Utilization reports can be based on drug descriptions, NDC or ChargeCode.
• The Clinical Intervention report can be filtered for Completed and Incomplete Clinical Interventions.
• A new Inventory Waste report is available for tracking damaged, lost and/or expired items/lots.

See a comprehensive list of all Ascend-HI features.