What's New in Version 1.2?

New Features:
Some windows now have an addition option to sort the list by provider name or by date.  The windows with this added feature are all found under the Medical Care Menu, and include:
      
    Emergency, Hospice and Home Health Care, Hospital, Tests, Treatments, and under the Medical Care|Office Visits menu these: Checkups, Dental, Illness or Injury.

   In addition, a few of these windows have also been given a REPORT button so that you may print a report ordered by date or by provider, and you may also select just one provider to print.  So, if you want to print out all Office Visits to a specific provider, you can.  



To help you answer the question: What do I owe Dr. So-and-So:
The MEDICAL COSTS SUMMARY list has a new column: Balance.  
The amount shown under "Balance" is the amount remaining UNPAID for each health care event.  It is computed as the FEE minus what you have paid and minus any amount paid by your insurance to the provider.   This amount has always been available when you double-click on the event to bring up the record of payments, refunds, and balance for that event.  But the new column makes it easier to see. 

When you print a report from this window, you may now select a specific provider.  The report will show the FEE for each medical care event, any payments or refunds credited to that event.  The total for each type of care, say Checkups, for example, continues to be your out of pocket expenses for all Checkups, not just the ones to that provider.  Your out of pocket expenses are computed by the amounts you have paid minus any refunds to you.  The report does not show the balance for each care event, but that may be seen in the new column in the list.   

 

New Tables and Graphs:
In the LIFESTYLE|Growth and Development Window, you will find two new buttons.
One is "Infant Head Circumference" which is used to display a graph of measurements in centimeters of infant head circumferences.  The HELP button will tell you how to take this measurement and what it means.  Be sure to press the HELP button on the Growth and Development Window to read the new section "Reliability of Growth Charts".  This is important information about the coming revision of growth chart data from the National Center for Health Statistics and why the revisions are needed.  The discussion also includes an explanation of the limitations of graphs on your computer screen. 

See also the new HELP information on Printing Graphs.

The second new button on the Growth and Development Window is the Growth Velocity button. Pressing this button will give you a screen where you may select which age group you wish to see.  The term "growth velocity" refers to the rate of change in weight and length/height over a given time period.  In essence, it helps parents find out if their child is growing at a normal rate. The data again comes from the National Center for Health Statistics and is subject to the same limitations as all the growth chart data.  Press the HELP button to learn more. The growth velocity tables have been prepared for girls and boys, from birth to 24 months, from age 2 to 12, and from 12 to 18.  You may also access these tables from NUTRITION|Weight|Child,Growth Velocity menu item.

New commands:
FILE|Backup to copy the Health-Minder database files to the directory c:\hminder\backup (if you have installed Health-Minder on c:\hminder). See the HELP on BACKUP for more details.

PRINT DATA TO FILE AND EXIT button is now found on the startup screen after your sixty day trial has ended.  If you decide not to register Health-Minder, you may print all the data you have entered into the database to a text file. You can still change your mind, though, and register at any time.  See the topic "Registration" in the HELP file.

Bug Fixes:
A few people had problems with printing a report to a printer.  When trying to print, a system error message appeared.  That problem has been resolved.  For Windows 95/98/NT, Health-Minder installation will now include the printing utility TxtPrint which will print and produce reports in a nice format. To learn more, use the HELP for Reports.  The options for TxtPrint formats may be changed from the menu item SETUP|Options or by running the TxtPrint program itself. Users of Windows 3.1 did not experience this problem, so no change was required.
 
 If you continue to have a problem, please e-mail me the error message you see plus the type of printer you are using.   NOTE: the work around is to print to a file, either plain text or in Rich Text Format, and then to open the file with your favorite word processor and print from there.


To edit the information about a health care provider, you needed to have first selected a family member's name.  This is no longer required.


If you entered an Illness as recurring, reports sometimes failed to print it correctly.  That has been corrected.

If you selected Printer or Screen on a report specification dialog, then un-marked either of these, the turn-off wasn't remembered and you got the SCREEN or PRINTER anyway.   That has been fixed.

