Ad Hoc Labelling with QTHotkey

Labelling can resolve many niggling issues in day to day work. For example, Drumnadrochit Surgery who are "paper light" had a problem compiling a full set of printed notes if a patient moved to a practice which used paper notes. They could only include the comments added by doctors during consultations by a laborious manual process of printing them off individually then "cutting and pasting". Now when this exercise is needed, they simply select the patient in GPASS and a keyboard shortcut allows them to print the information out on larger labels which can immediately be added to the printed clinical histories.

Helen Macdonald, who approached QuickTrace for a solution, commented "This was a job no one wanted to do but now it takes only a few minutes to add the comments to the notes we are making up - what a relief!". In addition they can also quickly transfer a doctor's comments to a TR card, saving even more time.

The new product QTHotkey can be adapted to a range of simple labelling requirements. At its simplest, use it to highlight some text in a document and have the text transferred to a label - useful for one off mailing labels, file labels etc etc. We use it ourselves to print many different kinds of labels. For example we produce product labels directly from the product lists in Sage accounting software.

We also generate shipping labels to attach to boxes and to TNT documentation. The possibilities are endless.

Pricing for QTHotkey is yet to be fixed but it will be a low cost utility for which additional scripts may be purchased to extend the range of tasks, as these become available.