Macro Scheduler Validated in Medical Settings

When it comes to treating patients, every second and every step saved counts, and can even save a life. That makes Macro Scheduler a natural fit for our healthcare customers because it streamlines repetitive behind-the-scene tasks like data entry, freeing the hands and attention of nurses, physicians, technicians, and other health care personnel.

There's really no reason these highly skilled healthcare workers should spend time typing in the same data every day when those keystrokes can be easily automated (and even scheduled to run unattended) with Macro Scheduler. How much time you can save depends on how many macros you put into use. Some healthcare customers report savings of nine hours a day or more!

Hands-Free Filing for Large Medical Vaccine Trial

About 4,000 documents are being scanned and transmitted each day from remote health centers in the Netherlands to a Dutch hospital to support the world's second-largest medical vaccine trial. These documents contain coding readable by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software that conveys the remote center and patient involved. Macro Scheduler was used to initiate commands for the OCR software to automatically process these documents for filing, and to extract data from an Excel spreadsheet to cross-check for missing documents.

The trial's innovative hands-free filing procedure was validated by external auditors.
340,000 documents total will be filed using the OCR technology.
About nine hours a day are saved using OCR, according to the hospital.
Automation improves accuracy. Macros validate and detect OCR errors and if needed flag up documents (only 1 in 1000) for manual review.

New Uses for Macro Scheduler Await Your Discovery

How you use Macro Scheduler in your healthcare office or clinical setting will depend on what repetitive steps you need to automate. Any data or process keyed into a PC by your staff again and again is a great place to start.

Once you see how much time and money Macro Scheduler saves on one task, you'll think of a few more. Then just imagine that savings being spread to every user in your office, every department, and throughout an institution. Truly, the potential for a medical office, research team, or hospital to save time and money with Macro Scheduler is unlimited.

Learn how one hospital is saving time and money in testing Citrix applications using Macro Scheduler. Listen to Podcast.

(Macro Scheduler) costs a fraction of what WinRunner and other competing test tools on the market cost, and it saves money in other ways as well. The other tools generally require a license for every machine we run our test on. With Macro Scheduler, we can create compiled-macros. So, say, we have a team of five testers developing scripts on five licenses. But we want to run tests very quickly on 20 machines. Well, then, we could put compiled-macros on those 20 machines and run the test very quickly, at no additional cost.

We believe (Macro Scheduler) is going to greatly decrease our maintenance cost because it will simplify our scripts---so we will have fewer workarounds. And it will let us use the same method, image recognition, for writing all our scripts---whether it's a web app or client server ... By using one method, we can start including more testers and get our manual testers involved in creating some of their own automation.

Gale Dyvig, Seattle Children's Hospital

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Automated Software Testing of Citrix Applications [Transcript]

Gale Dyvig, Seattle Children's Hospital

Mar 2, 2009

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Macro Scheduler Supports World's 2nd Largest Medical Vaccine Trial

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I am so satisfied with this software. Its value can't be overemphasized. It has helped me automate so many things - even with our old-fashioned (Meditech) emulator.

Christopher Cruz, Good Samaritan Hospital

I have been working as a medical transcriptionist and am required to move transcribed data from Word on my computer to a form on an Internet site. Copying the body of the transcription was fine but having to copy data to multiple boxes on the site was NOT. Macro Scheduler has reduced significantly the time I have to spend on each report because I have used it to create a macro to automatically move the information. I LOVE Macro Scheduler for that reason alone, but now I am thinking of lots of other uses for it. I have had some programming experience but am not great at it and I had no trouble figuring out how to use Macro Scheduler--that was a big plus.

Carol Richmond, Medical Transcriptionist

I used to work for a company that used Macro Scheduler, and I think it's just the best thing since peanut butter met jelly. I can't tell you how many hours it saved me there, and I'm finding it will do the same at my new job.

Alan Williams, White River Health System