Encore Pro vs. Encore Viewer Software

[gaujaai]

The data is actually stored on your local PC as a series of XML files, one for each time you load data into Encoreviewer. On my PC it is locate in a directory called "neo\SCDecodedFiles" and is located ( I assume SCDecodedFiles translates to Smart Card Decoded Files) at c:\neo\SCDecodedFiles . In that directory you will find an XML file that contains the decoded data for each time a download was done from the smartcard. For those that don't know what an XML format is and how to use it the information may not be of much use. However, if you are familiar with Perl or MS VB you should have no problem creating an application to migrate this data to a database and produce a program to analyze it.

Alan

Here is a sample of part of one of my files:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <TherapyDeviceData version="1" date="1/18/2009 6:58:15 AM">
- <SmartCard Valid="True">
- <SmartcardTypeZero Version="0">
- <CardInformationBlock Valid="True">
- <CardInformationBlockv0>
<Checksum Value="239" />
<StartAddrUIDB Value="21" />
<EndAddrUIDB Value="140" />
<StartAddrCPB Value="141" />
<EndAddrCPB Value="162" />
<StartAddrCDCB Value="163" />
<EndAddrCDCB Value="177" />
<StartAddrCDB Value="178" />
<EndAddrCDB Value="32767" />
</CardInformationBlockv0>
</CardInformationBlock>
- <UserIDBlock Valid="True">
- <UserIDBlockv2>
<Checksum Value="11" />
<PersonalID Value="" />
<PatientFirstName Value="" />
<PatientLastName Value="" />
<SerialNumber Value="M002794973" />
<ModelNumber Value="510M" />
<TextData Value="" />
</UserIDBlockv2>
</UserIDBlock>
- <CardPrescriptionBlock Valid="False">
- <CardPrescriptionBlockv0>
<EmptyNode />
</CardPrescriptionBlockv0>
</CardPrescriptionBlock>
- <CardDataControlBlock Valid="True">
<CDBVersion Value="13" />
- <CardDataControlBlockv0>
<CDBValidFlag Value="True" />
<HeadPtr Value="178" />
<TailPtr Value="32767" />
<BlockCheck Value="49" />
</CardDataControlBlockv0>
</CardDataControlBlock>
- <CardDataBlock Valid="True">
- <SleepV3CDB CDBVersion="13">
<Questionnaires HowMany="0" />
- <TherapySessions HowMany="7">
- <TherapySession Date="1/15/2009 1:07:23 AM" DeviceMode="AutoCPAPwithAFlex" SessionDuration="03:29:58">
<StartCondition Value="Invalid" />
- <EventLog HowMany="1200">
<StateChangeEvent Time="00:00:00" Type="Reconnect" />
<StateChangeEvent Time="00:00:00" Type="BlowerOn" />
<SettingsChangeEvent Time="00:00:00" Type="MinCPAPPressure" Value="4" />
<SettingsChangeEvent Time="00:00:00" Type="MaxCPAPPressure" Value="16" />
<SettingsChangeEvent Time="00:00:00" Type="Humidfier" Value="3" />
<SettingsChangeEvent Time="00:00:00" Type="FlexComfort" Value="3" />
<PressureChangeEvent Time="00:00:30" Type="EPAP" Value="4" />
<FlowEvent Time="00:00:30" Type="Leak" Value="46" />
<PressureChangeEvent Time="00:01:00" Type="EPAP" Value="4" />
<FlowEvent Time="00:01:00" Type="Leak" Value="53" />
<StateChangeEvent Time="00:01:27" Type="BlowerOff" />
<StateChangeEvent Time="00:03:37" Type="Reconnect" />
<StateChangeEvent Time="00:03:37" Type="BlowerOn" />
<SettingsChangeEvent Time="00:03:37" Type="MinCPAPPressure" Value="4" />
<SettingsChangeEvent Time="00:03:37" Type="MaxCPAPPressure" Value="16" />
<SettingsChangeEvent Time="00:03:37" Type="Humidfier" Value="3" />
<SettingsChangeEvent Time="00:03:37" Type="FlexComfort" Value="3" />
<PressureChangeEvent Time="00:04:07" Type="EPAP" Value="4" />
<FlowEvent Time="00:04:07" Type="Leak" Value="67" />
<PressureChangeEvent Time="00:04:37" Type="EPAP" Value="4" />
<FlowEvent Time="00:04:37" Type="Leak" Value="39" />

[ilenedreams]

Darn, Why do you have to be a computer wizard to see what your sleep results were the night before????????

[LinkC]

Encore Viewer does not allow me to same my data to my own machine. This is unacceptable -- and a violation of my rights, since it denies me a copy of my own medical records.

I'm pretty sure you are joking--at least I hope so!! But just in case...

It doesn't become a "medical record" until it is "recorded" by a "medical" organization. You have a couple of options:

1. Transcribe it from your computer screen.
2. Pay your DME or doctor to read your card, then print you a hard copy.
3. Sue your machine...

[LinkC]

Darn, Why do you have to be a computer wizard to see what your sleep results were the night before????????

You don't! If you want that capability, go with Encore Pro.

[robysue]

Darn, Why do you have to be a computer wizard to see what your sleep results were the night before????????

You don't! If you want that capability, go with Encore Pro.

And what all needs to be installed before Encore Pro will run correctly?

I ask because I am looking at a real possibility of being forced to change from an ResMed S9 AutoSet with ResScan running on my barebones XP machine to a PR System One Bi-PAP machine and I'm not sure EncoreViewer will give me the same flexibility to look at my data that ResScan currently does.

[LinkC]

The Encore Pro installation will include the SQL database.
The only separate installation is the card reader driver.

But, they do need to be installed in the proper order. It's been too long for me to remember what that is...but it's in the instructions.

[robysue]

The Encore Pro installation will include the SQL database.
The only separate installation is the card reader driver.

But, they do need to be installed in the proper order. It's been too long for me to remember what that is...but it's in the instructions.

Reading and following instructions has always been a forte of mine.

Any idea where I can get a link to the full download since the machine I'm using for my data does not have SQL installed?

[jbn3boys]

Just so you know, most of the information on this thread is over a year and a half old. I don't know what, if anything, that has changed about the program in that length of time. (the version I bought from cpap.com this fall is version 2.0.23.0)

I do know that EncoreViewer DOES save the information on your computer, and generates pdf reports that you can save to your computer (right from Viewer). If you do not have a program to allow you to print pdf files, you can copy any page (or part of a page), paste it into Paint (comes in the Accessories of any Windows pc), and can print it from there.

[Hawthorne]

jbn3boys - I don't think anything has changed with Encore Viewer 2.

You are right. You can save the data in PDF form to your "Docments" and print it from there if you want to.

Encore Viewer 2 gives the same data as Encore Pro 2 except that Encore Pro 2 gives waveforms. I understand, from posters here, that the waveform data is "hit and miss".

I have used Encore Viewer 2 since I got my PR machine in the early Spring and am happy with the data it gives. I have tried installing Encore Pro on 2 different computers but without success. I have decided it is not worth the hassle and am happy with Encore Viewer 2.