Acupuncture Technology News

Setting Up Your AcuGraph 5 Most Important Things you need to know to get started using your AcuGraph. How to Setup AcuGraph Hardware: This is the AcuGraph Processing Unit – it’s the brain, heart, and soul of AcuGraph. This is what takes the measurements and sends them to the AcuGraph software. To set this up, you’ll notice that there’s a plug on either end. One plug is for the usb cable that goes to the computer,... Read more

In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at the AcuGraph Reference section. When you go to reference section you’ll see that there are 5 tabs across the top. The first tab is Points. Here you can look up Acupuncture points. They are organized by meridian. And so if you click on meridian name while All is selected, then you get a view of the entire meridian. Or you can click on individual points by selecting... Read more

In this walkthrough we’re going to talk about creating AcuGraph treatment plan, focusing on Home Care for patients. In other words, we will show you how to create instructions to send home with the patient for them to provide ongoing self care at home. When we’re looking at the graph, click on the Home Care tab at the top. You’ll see it’s divided in four quadrants. The top left we have Herbal Prescriptions and that’s based on... Read more

Let’s talk about Custom treatments that you can use when you’re creating treatment plans on AcuGraph. When you go to your patient’s graph and you click on the Custom tab, you’ll see that there isn’t a custom treatment available because you haven’t defined any custom treatments yet. So, the first step is to go to Reference Section by clicking on the reference icon on the top left corner of the application, then click on custom treatment (shown... Read more

In this tutorial we’ll walk through building a treatment plan, focusing on treatment point selection. As you’re looking through the patient’s graph, you’ll see the treatment recommendations at the bottom of the screen. Basic Treatment The white square that is highlighted is the Basic treatment protocol, and all the points that are recommended (showing below the channel) are part of the basic protocol. When you have an excessive meridian, then it’s going to recommend the... Read more

In this tutorial we’re going to talk about graphs and all the graph styles that are included in AcuGraph 5, how to interpret them, and what they mean. Select a patient, and go to Last Graph. This pulls up the last exam that you performed on that patient. Now in it’s simplest sense everything is color-coded. Green meridians are normal and within the normal range and that normal range is considered between the blue horizontal line,... Read more

In this tutorial, we’re going to look at some of the more advanced treatment options in AcuGraph for those that like to really customize their treatments and their treatment point selection. When you look at the graph of a patient, for example the one below, you can see that there are two deficient meridians, one excess, and one that is split. Let’s suppose that you want to treat the split meridian as if it were... Read more

Setting Up Custom Cover Page In this tutorial we’re going to walkthrough how to add a Custom Cover Page to your AcuGraph reports. Whether you’re going to print or email the report, having a custom cover page gives you a professional image, increases the attractiveness of your report and makes a great marketing tool. We highly recommend you do this. Step 1 is to create your own custom cover page. You can do that in Microsoft... Read more

In this video, we are going to show the herbal portion of the AcuGraph and how to include herbs in your treatment plan. When you are looking at a graph you can click on the Herbs tab up at the top to see the herbal recommendations for the graph. Here you will a list of recommendations and a score for each one. The higher the score, the more likely that particular herbal formula is applicable to the graph.... Read more

Let’s talk about Patient Management… When you first open AcuGraph, it opens in Secure Mode. Secure Mode is HIPAA compliant and doesn’t show any personal health information. If you’re in a safe place and there’s no prying eyes around, you can click to show all patients for your management and staffing needs. Click again to hide all the patient records, returning to Secure Mode, thus, maintaining the confidentiality of your records. To find a patient, whether... Read more

In this tutorial, we’re going to talk about the spinal treatment recommendations that AcuGraph makes. When you’re looking at the graph you can click on the Spinal tab. Here, you’ll see a picture of the Spine with some areas shaded. The shading has several different degrees of red, and some areas are not shaded at all. The more shading and the more red that you have in a particular area, the more likely there is to be a spinal... Read more

In this tutorial we’re going to look at how to use the Patient File in AcuGraph 5. To see the patient file, first type in a patient’s name. Once you found and selected the patient,  there are icons on the top-right corner which shows the: Overview Patient File New Exam Last Graph Let’s start with Overview. This shows you a general overview about this patient. You can put an image on the patient’s profile to recognize... Read more

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to archive and unarchive patients from your AcuGraph patient database. We’ll start in the AcuGraph Home screen and click on Show All Patients. This will reveal the entire list of patients in your database. Select a patient and click on the pencil icon on the right to edit the patient information. In the edit patient window, click on Archive Patient, then Save.   Now, when you return to the Home screen you’ll notice that... Read more

AcuGraph Food Treatment Plan Let’s look at the Food portion of AcuGraph and how you can use the food recommendations in designing your treatment plan. When you look at your patient’s graph you can click on the Food tab and you’ll see a miniature graph in the top left corner. You can click on a channel on that graph thumbnail to reveal a list of  TCM Patterns associated with that channel. Select a TCM pattern to reveal the Key Symptoms,... Read more

Let’s walk through the process of performing an Exam. We’ll start by selecting a patient. Then click on New Exam. By default, AcuGraph measures the Source points. As you perform the exam you will see a picture of the point your measuring. On the right side of the screen, two visual indicators show additional information about the measurement. For each measurement you’ll see that countdown timer so you can see how much longer you have on that point before the... Read more