Did You Know?: Automatically Generate Reports Using Report Scheduler

Using MEDITECH's Report Scheduler feature, customers are able to automatically generate reports based on settings defined by the hospital. Report Scheduler provides the user the ability to automatically print reports from a designated device, download to a private or network folder, send via e-mail, as well as archive. Reports may be scheduled to generate daily, monthly, quarterly, annually, or a combination of any of these frequencies. In addition, reports can be scheduled to generate on a specific day of the week.

Report Scheduler can be used for a vast array of needs. For example, customers might want a report generated on the first day of the month which reflects the prior month's data. Or, customers may want to automatically generate a report containing billing information, statistics, or the hospital's daily census.

Setting up the report schedule is a very simple process. Once the report has been scheduled to automatically generate, the system will continue to automatically print, download, e-mail, or archive unless the user makes a change to the schedule.

The following screen shots provide a step-by-step overview on how to set up the Report Scheduler. The first step is to define the report's basic information, including program name and database. This can be completed by accessing the General Information tab.




Once the report's general information is defined, click on the Run Date/Time tab to set up the desired run date and time of the report:



Finally, click on the Action tab to define the output of the scheduled report, whether it's print, download, e-mail, or archive:

If you would like to learn more about automatically generating reports through Report Scheduler, feel free to contact your MEDITECH MIS Applications Specialist.