ACS SSR app for iPhone and iPad
4.8 (
1488 ratings )
Medical
Developer:
Resilience Software
Free
Current version:
1.6.3, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 06 Jan 2010
App size: 38.02 Mb
The American College of Surgeons Surgeon Specific Registry application is for ACS members only. The purpose of the Case Log is to allow surgeons to track their outcomes. This will assist surgeons in identifying practice-based learning needs. It may assist surgeons in meeting the requirements of Part IV of the Maintenance Certification Program of the Specialty Boards.
FEATURES:
• Activity Setting (dates for procedure, admission and discharge; location; role; assistant)
• Patient Information (MRN, date of birth, name, gender)
• Medical Information (ICD-9 codes for pre- and post-operative diagnoses; ASA Class; CPT® codes for procedures; pathology; post-operative occurrences; wound classification) and Notes. Procedure Date is the only required field; all other fields are optional.
• Hot Lists – the system remembers your most recently and most frequently used CPT® and ICD-9 codes
• Nicknames - you can assign nicknames to CPT® and ICD-9 codes
Pros and cons of ACS SSR app for iPhone and iPad
ACS SSR app good for
The ACSPBLS app is a great way to be able to enter cases into your iPhone or iTouch. I have been looking for this for some time. The previous app was only available for the Palm operating system. My Palm died, and so did my case log. There are a couple of obvious improvements for the next version. It would be very nice if the date of surgery would default to Today, so that I dont have to keep entering it. Support for a hotlist, or most commonly used list would greatly increase efficiency. It is very difficult to look up CPT codes, and essentially assumes that you know the codes. I guess that is ok, but it required me to place a CPT book at my dictation station. I probably use 20 to 25 CPT codes 85 % of the time. Thats why the hotlist would be great.
Overall, I think it is a great app. I am trying to make entering my cases a routine after I dictate. This app really helps.
I actually find it much easier to enter cases with this app than on a computer. This app however has not been working since I upgraded to the 4.0 version.
Useful for entering cases on the fly. The crash problem solved. Wish modifiers included in the iPhone and iPad apps.
Thanks for the latest update. I like the auto caps feature for names, and the password only acsess instead of entering user name each time
I downloaded the app on my new IPhone 6 plus but cannot get it to sync. Putting the cases on the ACS website is much more tedious than using the app when it works. Hopefully you can fix this.
9pm 11/11/14
I tried to sync just now and it works!! Thanks. I changed the rating to 5 stars.
Some bad moments
I have been looking forward to this since I saw the announcement on ACS website. Honestly, somewhat disappointed. I spent several hours inputting data since Jan 1 and when I did a sync, got numerous duplicate entries. I tried deleting, revising to no avail. It seemed to get worse. I hope they fix this bug.
Does not seem to work with iPad. It does not allow the user to input the username and password on the first screen. Those fields are not accessible or able to be typed in.
The application functions, but it is much faster to enter cases on the website, especially with the duplicate case feature. Entering data on the iPhone is too time consuming, especially dates. I really liked the Palm application which was faster than the web but was forced to get something else when my Treo fell from a height of 3 feet.
I called ACS who confirmed that this version is not compatible with iPhone os4. Kind of annoying.
After the latest update, the app no longer starts. I get a circle that goes around about 270 degrees and the app crashes. No response from the developer so far. Previous versions have worked very well. Hope this gets fixes ASAP.
Nice app but it crashes and looses all the data. Very frustrating.
