Smart Phone Downloads

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Downloading to a Smart Phone

By Flo Janes

If you have a “Smart” phone, and would like to take home information from your Datacon system, you can create a document to assist with the download.
For example, at the end of the day you can download a list of patients that were seen so that you can make post-op calls later that evening. You can also download a list of patients with overdue payments so you can contact them from home.

Below are instructions on how to download an MS Excel spreadsheet and email the document to your smart phone. The example below is for a list of patients that are being seen today.

Within your Datacon system, create a word processing document to be merged with appointments for day, as a Plain text report with No page breaks. Select Edit the original document. Type in the following lines, hit tab between each field (this makes it a Tab delimited document).

Name        Home Phone     Cell Phone <print’to pc.xls>
< >
<name>  <home’phone>    <cell>

The “print’to pc.xls” launches MS Excel and relies on a “Download to MS Excel” printer option that will need to be set up on your printer menu before using. “<>” creates the file in a report format - there are no spaces in between the angle brackets.
Now from MS Excel, click on File, Send to Mail Recipient as an attachment.
It’s that easy!