Dear SIMMS Users,

We would like to inform you that a new version of the application is about to be released.

Faxes & Reports

Due to numerous complaints that have been received regarding duplicate faxes and undelivered reports, we have added into SIMMS a new option for the user to configure the way reports are delivered to the referring doctor.

Just as a reminder, to shorten the fax delivery time, SIMMS fax server batches all the reports for the same fax number and then delivers all of the pages at once. Upon encountering an interruption or error, the server re-tries to deliver 3 times, starting from the 1^st page.  Due to this configuration referring doctors using the same fax number might experience problems, as batches of 10 pages or more fail to get delivered successfully from the 1^st attempt.

From now on, you have the option to stop the system from batching the reports to avoid report-delivery issues.  We encourage you to use the setting found in SIMMS under the “Employees” section. Under “Staff Information” you can find the doctor(s) in question.  Select the option ‘Don’t group by fax number’, and then press save (see below).

We hope that these changes will help you resolve these issues.

Other Fixes

With this update we have made numerous other optimizations to existing functionality and fixed several bugs pertaining to specific clients. These include: issues with customized reports and templates, dates on CI receipts and other reports, uploading of PDF files, fixes to the new scheduler.

Future Development

-Addendum to report: We are working on adding the capability to save each new change to the report as a separate new file so that original report can never be edited.

-OSCAR integration: Final report to automatically go into OSCAR EMR

-SmartViewer: Changes to the way templates are opened

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact our technical support department.

Thank you for your business and cooperation.

Best Regards,

SIMMS Team