Purple Ant LLC in partnership with Black and White Medical Consulting LLC, a Raleigh, NC-based medical consulting firm, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of SnagDaBits v1.1, an advanced data export tool designed and built specifically for customers of PatientImpact, a healthcare provider patient-survey company. 

The initial set up of a doctor's office or clinic with Patient Impact typically requires more than a casual understanding of the database driving their Practice Management System (PMS) or Electronic Medical Record (EMR) applications.  Black and White Medical Consulting having a deep understanding of PMS/EMR applications in general, and a specific knowledge of many vendors applications, can provide the technical knowledge to "mine" the necessary data from the database.  After this initial set up, SnagDaBits takes what used to be a manual process of running queries against the database, and exporting to a specific file format, and automates the process via a Windows Service. SnagDaBits enables PatientImpact, and as a result the medical practice to get more consistent results from the export process.

With the release of version 1.1, SnagDaBits now includes the PMX (Practice Management eXtension) Client, a windows client that augments the PMS/EMR by providing additional data entry points for a patient that cannot easily or otherwise be incorporated into the PMS/EMR.  Many of the older Practice Management Systems do not have a field for entering a patient's email address, which is a necessary component of the email surveys that PatientImpact provides to its' customers.

SnagDaBits and the PMX Client both run on Windows, and require the .Net framework v2.0 or higher.

For information on purchasing SnagDaBits, contact Purple Ant, Black and White Medical Consulting, or PatientImpact.

Black & White Medical Consulting, LLC (www.bandwmedicalconsulting.com) is a Raleigh, NC-based consulting firm that specializes in revenue cycle management for medical practices across the US. They also provide services to healthcare professionals who need assistance in selection and implementation of electronic medical records systems.

PatientImpact LLC (www.patientimpact.com) helps healthcare providers better understand their patient customers through its proprietary web-based outcomes measurement application that captures patient feedback in real time.