Dear Esther,
First of all, thank you for the detailed explanation of your enhancement suggestion for HealthFrame.
One of the most exciting features of HealthFrame 2.1 is our ability to support a plug-in technology known as OpenHealth Services (OHS). Using OHS, with a simple click on a web link, HealthFrame can expand to support new reports, health risk assessments, etc. In particular, OHS allows us to offer you a new report that provides you with the functionality you described above (please see image below for a sample of what the report will look like, once you install the OHS plug-in).
Here are the steps you need to take to install the OHS plug-in for calculating your 2006 medical mileage deduction:
1. Go to http://www.recordsforliving.com/OpenHealthServices/ServiceDirectory.aspx - in general to find out about OHS plug-ins. (You can get to this site from HealthFrame, by clicking on Help / Sample OpenHealth Services and then clicking on the link in the document).
2. Click on the link for 2006 IRS Mileage Deductions
3. Even if HealthFrame is not running the installation should work (you'll see a couple of dialog boxes confirming the plug-in installation - click OK).
4. Start HealthFrame and you should see the 2006 IRS Mileage Deductions report is now available in your Reports > OpenHealth Reports & Services section.
5. To start using this new report, create a mileage expense, with type Mileage - please note the capitalization and note that you need to select the ellipsis (...) type in order to enter Mileage.
6. If you want to experiment with the report without having to enter any data yourself, simply download our updated sample for "Susan Marie Taylor": http://www.recordsforliving.com/PersonalHealthRecords/SamplePHRs.aspx. All you need to do is click on that link and the sample personal health record (PHR) will be installed. If you open that PHR, you will be able to see the report shown below.
Thanks again for your detailed feature request and we hope that you will continue to share your suggestions with us,
Support Team
