Automatic Updates

MedicalDirector periodically releases updates to content.

Examples of content that can be updated include:
  • Consumer medicines information
  • Lab tests (available to the Investigations Requests module)
  • Letter Writer templates (supplied by MedicalDirector)
  • MDref (the medications database)
  • NPS Radar
  • Product information
  • Travel medicine
  • Other ancillary files and documentation

These updates are available for download as a single file, which is then installed on your computers running MedicalDirector Clinical.

Prior to version 3.15.3 of Clinical, it was a requirement that the MDref update was installed manually on each computer running Clinical.

As from version 3.15.3 however, you are only required to install the update to your server computer; content updates are copied and installed automatically from your server to your workstation, as required, when a user:
  • Logs on to Clinical.
  • Opens a patient's record.
  • Accesses product information, consumer medicines Information, or NPS radar.
  • Accesses the Pathology, Cytology, or X-ray Request modules.
Note:
Updated MDref packages can also be deployed manually.
MDref updates are deployed to your Clinical computer(s) as follows:
  1. An MDref package update is released by MedicalDirector. It is available:
    • As a download from the MedicalDirector website.
    • As a download using the MedicalDirector Automatic Update utility, installed with Clinical. As from version 3.15.3, MedicalDirector Automatic Update (previously known as HCN Automatic Update) allows you to schedule and run a silent MDref download/installation to your server computer. You indicate when you want the download-and-update process to occur, and as updates become available they will be downloaded to your server computer and installed automatically.
  2. The MDref update is installed on your server computer. This can be done manually (if you downloaded the package yourself), or via the Automatic Update utility. Once the MDref package has been installed on your server computer, the updated MDref medications database is immediately available to users running Clinical on their workstations. The remaining updated content is transferred to your workstation computers and installed automatically as required.