Medical Records

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This screen displays the medical records for the current patient - or if there is no current patient, a Select button allowing you to select a patient.

Note that this screen is for viewing and editing the patient's medical records. However, if you are in the middle of a consult, you should not be using this - you should be using the Visit Editor which is accessed via the Consult button on the Workflow|Scheduling and Workflow|Work List screens.

There are eight different screen shots below, one for each of the tabs: Summary, Problems, Reminders, Alerts, Documents, Charges, Prescriptions, Estimates and Communication. For patient insurance, see Insurance.

All of these have a Select button at the top to allow you to select another patient.

All of them function as select screens. Date selection is always available, and in some you can select using the status or type.

All of them display the details of the item you have selected in the bottom part of the screen.

 

Summary

This shows the summary of the records.

If you have set the Show Clinician preference, then the display will be as follows. Note that here the practice is using 'short names' for their clinicians (see Concepts|Users) so the display shows 'SM' rather than 'Dr Sam Michaels'.

If the Show Communications preference is enabled, Communications records will be included. This makes it easier to see the flow of events for a patient, such was when reminders were sent. Communication records are for informational purposes only, so they:

  • do not appear in printed histories
  • are not submitted in insurance claims

 

Apart for the date, the selection fields are:
Type - this can be set to All or one of Addendum, Note, Problem, Weight, Medication, Investigation, Attachment, Form, Image, Letter or Communications
Include Charges - uncheck this box if you don't want to show the invoice line items. You would do this if you are setting up a medical record to send off as part of a referral and you don't want your charges to be shown. This option can also be set in Preferences.
- this button changes the sort order of items within the visit - as shown it indicates that the visit items are shown in descending order, ie newest at the top. If you press the button it will change to an up arrow head indicating that the items are in ascending order with the newest at the bottom.  Note that the visits themselves are always shown in descending order.
This option can also be set in Preferences.
Search - performs a case-insensitive search on patient records for the input text. The following fields are searched:

  • notes and addenda
  • record type
  • clinician, if the clinician is being displayed
  • batch number, if batches are being displayed
  • medication product name and label
  • invoice item product name
  • investigation type and identifier
  • document name
  • problem presenting complaint and diagnosis
  • weight
  • communications

Note that Visits will always be displayed, even if there is no match.

Product Type - searches for records with the products with the specified Product Type(s). Product Types can be selected from a list, or by entering a partial name in the text field. The following records are searched:

  • Customer Invoice Item
  • Form
  • Investigation
  • Letter
  • Medication

The items in the display are partially colour coded. As you can see above, the selected item (the checkup visit) is in blue, and the other items are coloured as shown below.

As you can see problems are pink/red, medication light brown and weight a darker green. Note that any Problem items are shown with a link and clicking this will take you to the Problems tab.

The buttons are:
New - create a new entry - a window will open allowing you to select the type of entry to be created. If it is something other than a visit (ie a note, a form, etc), then the new entry will be created under the currently selected visit. Note that the 'current visit' is the visit containing the currently selected item (which may be the visit itself or a note, form, medication etc item that is part of that visit).
With the exception of Visit and Problem records, records can be automatically locked from editing after a period of time. See Medical Record Locking below.
Edit - edit the selected item. If the Edit button is displayed, then you can edit the item - but for some things (e.g. an invoice item where the invoice has been finalised, or a Note that has been  locked) the edit button will be suppressed because you cannot edit in this case.
Delete - delete the selected item - a confirmation window will be displayed. Again, if you can't delete the item, then the Delete button will not be displayed.
Print - print what is shown on on the screen
Mail - email what is shown on on the screen
Add Visit & Note - pressing this will generate a new visit entry and open the New Visit & Note window so that you can add a new Visit and Note. This button should NOT be used to create a normal consult visit (for this you should use the Check-In button on the Workflow|Scheduling screen). It is intended for use when creating a note unrelated to another visit, say as a result of a phone call.
Log - create a Communication record for the patient. This button is only available if the Show Communications preference is enabled.
Import Flow Sheet Reports - imports Medical Records, Billing, Notes and Flow Sheet PDF reports from Smart Flow Sheet. Only displayed if Smart Flow Sheet is configured for the current Practice Location.

Problems

The Problems tab shows the details of the patient's problems. This tab mirrors the Summary tab display but shows the data grouped by problem rather than visit.  Visits are shown with a link and clicking this will return you to the Summary tab.

Problems are displayed by status, then date. That is, Unresolved problems are displayed first, in descending date order, followed by Resolved problems.

The Search field works the same as in the Summary tab, with the exception that both Problems and Visits will always be displayed, regardless of the search criteria.

The buttons are as follows:
New - create a new entry - a window will open allowing you to select the type of entry to be created. If it is something other than a problem (ie a note, a form, etc), then the new entry will be created under the currently selected problem. Note that the 'current problem' is the problem containing the currently selected item (which may be the problem itself or a note, form, medication etc item that is part of that problem).
Edit - edit the selected item. If the Edit button is displayed, then you can edit the item - but for some things (eg a invoice item where the invoice has been finalised) the edit button will be suppressed because you cannot edit in this case.
Delete - delete the selected item - a confirmation window will be displayed. Again, if you can't delete the item, then the Delete button will not be displayed.
Print - print what is shown on on the screen
Mail - email what is shown on the screen

Reminders

The Reminders tab shows the details of the patient's reminders.

For details on the Reminders field, click here.

The buttons are as follows:
New - create a new reminder
Edit - edit the selected reminder
Delete - delete the selected reminder - a confirmation window will be displayed

Alerts

The Alerts tab shows the details of the patient's alerts.

For details on the Alerts fields click here.

The buttons are as follows:
New - create a new alert
Edit - edit the selected alert
Delete - delete the selected alert - a confirmation window will be displayed

Documents

This shows the details of the patient's documents. As you can see below, there are 5 different types: Attachments, Images,Investigations, Letters  and Forms. All of these except the latter support 'versions', ie previous revisions of the document.

The buttons are:
New - create a new document - a window will open allowing you to select the type
Edit - edit the selected document record (not the document itself - though see below). If the document has status Finalised you will not be able to edit the record.
Delete - delete the selected document - a confirmation window will be displayed. If the document has status Finalised you will not be able to delete it.
Print - if the selected item has an associated document template (which can be the case with an Investigation - see Administration - Laboratory - Investigation Type) this will be presented for printing. Otherwise, if there is an attachment present, in .odt or .doc format, it will be presented for printing. If the document is other than an .odt or .doc file, it will be downloaded and can then be printed.
Mail - emails the selected item as an attachment.
Refresh - (this button only appears when the selected document is a Letter) - refresh the document by regenerating it from its template - a confirmation window will be displayed.

Clicking on the entry in the Document column will cause the document to be downloaded and displayed.  Note that for Letters the Document column shows two icons like . If you click on the right-hand one, the pdf file containing the letter will be downloaded and displayed. If you click on the left-hand one (or the name of the document) then the word processing document will be downloaded and you can open it in your word processor and save it and then edit it. (You need to save it as it is opened read-only.) After editing the file, you can then use the Edit button to edit the letter and upload the revised file.

Charges

This shows the details of the charges resulting from the patient's treatments. Note that this screen just displays information, there are no 'bottom buttons' to let you do things.  It is provided so that you can check that everything you think should be charged for has been, and to check on past charges.

Prescriptions

The Prescriptions tab is where patient prescriptions are created and dispensed.

The buttons are:

New - create a new prescription
Edit - edit the selected prescription. If the prescription has been fully dispensed or has expired, it cannot be edited.
Delete - delete the selected prescription. If the prescription has been dispensed or has expired, it cannot be deleted.
Print - prints the selected prescription.
Mail - emails the selected prescription.
Dispense - dispenses the selected prescription. This displays a medication window that allows the Date, Expiry Date and Clinician to be selected. The Label and Quantity are fixed
Cancel Prescription - cancels the selected prescription, if it hasn't been fully dispensed or expired.

 

Estimates

The Estimates tab is used to manage estimates for the patient.  See Concepts - Estimates for background.
It is very similar to the Customers - Estimates screen, except that entry is restricted to the current patient only. If an estimate exists for another patient, or an estimate contains multiple patients, then it will be excluded.

The buttons are as follows:
New - create a new estimate.
Edit - edit the selected estimate
Delete - delete the selected estimate - a confirmation window will appear
Finalise - change the status of the selected estimate to Finalised - a confirmation window will appear. Finalising the estimate locks it from any further changes. If you confirm the Finalise, then a print window will open allowing you to print or email the estimate.
Print - print the selected estimate.
Mail - email the selected estimate.
Copy - copy this estimate to create another one.
Invoice - generate an invoice from this estimate. To ensure that the that the correct clinician is recorded when an estimate is invoiced, the clinician is prompted for unless:

Communications

The Communications tab is used to display and log communication regarding the patient. Each communication may also be viewed via the customer. See Customers - Communications & Alerts  for more details.

Medical Record Locking
 

By default, medical records are automatically locked from editing after a period of time. This is determined by the Practice setting Record Lock Period.

The following record types are automatically locked:

  • Addendum
  • Attachment
  • Attachment Version
  • Image
  • Image Version
  • Investigation
  • Investigation Version
  • Letter
  • Letter Version
  • Form
  • Medication
  • Note
  • Weight

An Addendum record can be used to annotate a Medication or Note record after it has been locked. These are displayed after the record in the history that they annotate. To do this, click on the Medication or Note record that you want to add an Addendum to and press the New button and select Addendum.

Note that the visit itself is not locked, and that if you desire, you can add a new note (or other item) to a visit whose other items have been locked. What you cannot do is modify the items that have been locked.

Investigations support some updates after they have been locked:

  • Reports can be added.
    The existing report is versioned, if one is present.
  • The Reviewed flag can be changed, on the current and prior versions
  • The Result Status can be changed

Other locking exceptions include:

  • Medication, Investigation and document records linked to an invoice may be edited or removed via the invoice, until the invoice is finalised
  • Investigation and document records can be updated via the Document Loader
  • Medication, investigation, and document records can be removed from the patient history if the invoice is reversed.

Confirm Delete

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This is the delete confirm screen. Press OK to proceed, else Cancel.

Confirm New

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Depending on which tab of the Medical Records or Visit Editor screen that you have open, this window allows you to select the type of medical record entry, alert/reminder, or document to be created. Select the required one and press OK, else Cancel to abort.

For the Summary tab, the window is: (the partially visible last item is 'Weight')

For the Reminders and Alerts tab, the window is:

For the Documents tab, the window is:

Confirm Refresh

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This window is displayed when you press the Refresh button to refresh a letter from its template. Press OK to confirm, Cancel to abort.

If Version current document is checked, then when the letter is regenerated, the current copy will be saved as a version, otherwise it will be replaced.

Create/Edit Alert

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This is the screen used to create or edit a patient Alert. See Concepts|Alerts for background.

The fields are as follows:
Date - the start date for the alert
End Date - the end date for the alert. This can be left blank if the alert has no end date.
Alert Type - select from those available - these are set via Administration|Types|Patient Alert Type
Reason - a short version of the Notes text
Product - the product that created the alert, if any
Author - the user that created the alert
Clinician - the associated clinician
Notes - the long version of the reason for the alert
Status - can be either In Progress or Completed
 

Create/Edit Attachment

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This is the screen used to create or edit an attachment document in the patient's medical records. See Concepts|Documents for background. Note that although you can use this facility to attach an image file, it is probably better to use the Image facility for this.

The fields are as follows:
Start Time - the date on which the entry was created - defaults to today
Description - any pertinent description
Status - this can be In Progress, Completed, or Finalised.  In Progress implies that you are still working on this; Completed implies that you have finished - but the entry can still be editied; and Finalised means that it is really complete and can no longer be edited.
Printed - this box will be checked when the form has been printed
Clinician - the appropriate clinician
Attachment - press the Select button to attach the file - after the file is attached its name (notes.txt in this case) is shown here.

The Versions tab shows the previous versions. Note that you can use the Add button to add another, but you can also use the Select button.  If you use the Select button to attach another file, then the previous 'top' version will just be pushed onto the version list.

As you can guess from the above, there is no problem in adding the same file name twice. In fact although two notes.txt files have been attached, each in fact contains different text.

 

Create/Edit Form

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This is the screen used to create or edit a form document in the patient's medical records. See Concepts|Documents for background.

The fields are as follows:
Start Time - the date on which the entry was created - defaults to today
Description - any pertinent description
Status - this can be In Progress, Completed, or Finalised.  In Progress implies that you are still working on this; Completed implies that you have finished - but the entry can still be editied; and Finalised means that it is really complete and can no longer be edited.
Printed - this box will be checked when the form has been printed
Form - select the form to print - these are the document templates that are of Type 'Patient Form'
Product - select a product if appropriate. This is here so that if the form selected is sensitive to the current product, the form can include product information.  Thus, for example, we do not have to have a vaccination certificate for each type of vaccination - we can just have a general certificate that prints the name of the current product.
Clinician - the appropriate clinician - normally the form will display the clinician's name

 

Create/Edit Image

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This is the screen used to create or edit an image document in the patient's medical records. See Concepts|Documents for background.

The fields are as follows:
Start Time - the date on which the entry was created - defaults to today
Description - any pertinent description
Status - this can be In Progress, Completed, or Finalised.  In Progress implies that you are still working on this; Completed implies that you have finished - but the entry can still be editied; and Finalised means that it is really complete and can no longer be edited.
Printed - this box will be checked when the form has been printed
Clinician - the appropriate clinician
Image - press the Select button to attach the file - after the file is attached its name (Bree.jpg in this case) is shown here.

The Versions tab shows the previous versions. Note that you can use the Add button to add another, but you can also use the Select button.  If you use the Select button to attach another file, then the previous 'top' version will just be pushed onto the version list.

Note that there is no problem in adding the same file name twice. Thus if your images arrive in files called img001.jpg, there is no problem if there is already an image imported from a file named img001.jpg.

Create/Edit Investigation

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This is the screen used to create/view/edit investigations.  For background see Concepts - Investigations.

 

The fields are as follows:

  • Date
the date on which the investigation was initiated
  • Investigation Type
the type of investigation - these are set up via Administration - Laboratory - Investigation Type
  • Laboratory
the laboratory that is performing the test(s) associated with the Investigation
  • Device
the Laboratory Device that the test(s) will be performed by
  • Notes
optional notes to associate with the investigation
  • Status
this will initially be 'In Progress' - for other settings see Concepts - Investigations
  • Order Status
the status of the order. This will initially be 'Pending' to indicate that the order has not been sent. For other settings see Concepts - Investigations
  • Clinician
the associated clinician
  • Report
use the Select button to add the results report to the investigation. Note that if there is an existing report, the first will be pushed down into the Versions tab.
If the investigation has been ordered via an online laboratory, (see Concepts - Investigations) there should be no requirement to manually attach the report.
  • Tests
the test(s) to perform
  • Products
the product(s) that ordered the investigation
  • Results
results of the investigation
  • Versions
used to display and manage previous versions of the reports.

 

The Print Form button is used to print the Investigation form.

 

Create/Edit Letter

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This is the screen used to create or edit a letter document in the patient's medical records. See Concepts|Documents for background.

First lets look at the screen shot for a new letter:

The fields are as follows:
Start Time - the date on which the entry was created - defaults to today
Description - any pertinent description
Status - this can be In Progress, Completed, or Finalised.  In Progress implies that you are still working on this; Completed implies that you have finished - but the entry can still be editied; and Finalised means that it is really complete and can no longer be edited.
Printed - this box will be checked when the letter has been printed
Clinician - the appropriate clinician
Template - select the template to be used - these are the document templates that are of Type 'Patient Letter'
Document - you DO NOT need to press the Select button when you are creating a new letter. Simply selecting the Template will generate the letter from the template and insert the appropriate information.

 

Now the edit screen. The senario is as follows: you created the letter as above.  Then you decided that you needed to edit it, so on the Documents tab of the Medical Records screen, you selected the letter and then clicked on the actual letter to download it and open it in your word processor. You then saved a copy (as say Referral Letter-2), edited in the required changes and then saved it.

On the Medical Record screen you now press the Edit button to get the Edit Letter screen. You then press the Document Select button - this will open a browse window to allow you to select your 'Referral Letter-2' and upload it. The screen will then appear as below. The initial version has been saved as the previous version, and your new one as the new current version.

As intimated above, the Versions tab shows the previous versions. Note that you can use the Add button to add another, but you can also use the Select button.  If you use the Select button to attach another file, then the previous 'top' version will just be pushed onto the version list.

There is no problem in adding the same file name twice. In the above example the file names were different but they could have been the same.

Parameters

If a template containing parameters is selected (i.e. Fill-In fields in Microsoft Word, or Input Fields in OpenOffice Writer), a window like that below will be displayed prompting for the values of those parameters. On OK, these will be merged with the document. Note that the order of the prompts cannot be specified, ie if the template has prompte P1, P2 and P3, these may be displayed on the screen in the order P2, P1, P3.

The parameters are normally text fields and hence you can use macros to enter the information.

Create/Edit Medication

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This is the screen used to create or edit a medication entry in the patient's medical records.

If the medication entry is being created as a result of invoicing the item, then this screen will only be displayed if the medication product entry has it's Dispensing Label option ticked. It is always displayed to edit the medication entry, or if the entry is being created via the New - Medication button on the Patients - Medical Records screen.

The buttons are as follows:
Print Label - prints the label using the template, 'Drug Label'
New Prescription - creates a new prescription from the medication, copying the Medication, Quantity and Label. The Clinican will default to the current clinician, if any.
Apply - saves any changes.
Print & OK - print the label, saves any changes, and closes the dialog.
OK - saves any changes, and closes the dialog.
Cancel - cancels editing.

The fields are as follows:
Date - the date the medication record was created - defaults to today
Expiry Date - if a Batch has been selected, this represents the Batch expiry date. If not, you can enter the expiry date of the medication. Note that you can enter a relative date (e.g. 2m for 2 months from today).
Quantity - the quantity
Label - the label text- this will be initially set from the medication product record
Medication - the medication product
Batch - the product batch. If selected, this determines the Expiry Date. The Batch dropdown displays all active batches of the medication at the current stock location. The batch with the earliest expiry date is shown first.
Clinician - the clinician
Dispensing Notes - these will be displayed if there are any

Note that if it is important to you that the Dispensing Notes be displayed when the item is added to the invoice but you would not normally print a label (and hence the product's Dispensing Label option is not ticked), you should edit the product to have the Dispensing Label option ticked, but either leave it's Label Text blank, or set to say 'No label required'.

Create/Edit Note

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This is the screen used to create or edit a note in the patient's medical records.
The patient history is displayed below, for reference.
 

The fields are as follows:
Date - the date of the note - defaults to today
Note - the note text goes here. If needed you can change the size of the note window using the handle at the bottom left of the text window.
Clinician - the clinician

Create/Edit Prescription

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This is the screen used to create or edit a prescription. See Concepts|Prescriptions for background. In the picture below, the prescription has already been dispensed once so the 'Dispensing' tab is shown. If the prescription was being created the Dispensing tab would be absent.

The fields are as follows:
Date - the date on which the prescription was created - defaults to today
Expiry Date - the date on which the prescription expires. After this date, the prescription cannot be dispensed nor deleted. Note that this is totally separate from the Expiry Date set when you dispense the item - which is of course the expiry date of the dispensed medication. This date defaults to today plus the Prescription Expiry interval set for the practive - see Administration|Organisation|Practice. If you have not set this, then it defaults to zero and the Expiry Date will default to today.
Quantity - the quantity to be dispensed each time
Repeats - the number of repeats
Medication - the product
Label - the dispensing label text - this defaults to that set for the product. This will be the label when you actually dispense from this prescription.
Clinician - the clinician
Times Dispensed - the number of times that this prescription has been dispensed.

The Dispensing Tab shows the information for previous dispenses of this prescription.

Note that when you set up the prescription, you are functionally authorising the dispensing a total of (qty x (repeats+1)).  Hence if you set the Quantity to 2 and the Repeats to 5, the total quantity being authorised is 12.

Note also that when the prescription is dispensed neither the Quantity nor the Label text can be altered. If these do need to be altered, this must be done by editing the prescription itself.

Create/Edit Problem

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This is the screen used to create or edit a problem in the patient's medical record. See Concepts|Problems for background. The following screen shows a problem being edited.

The fields are as follows:
Date - the date the problem was created - defaults to today
Presenting Complaint - the presenting complaint
Diagnosis - the problem diagnosis
Status - this can be Unresolved or Resolved
Resolved Date - the date on which the problem was resolved
Clinician - the associated clinician

Problem Presenting Complaint/Diagnosis selection

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These two screens are presented if you click the appropiate binoculars icon on the Problem edit screen.  They allow you to select the Presenting Complaint or Diagnosis respectively. In both cases you can select from standardised VeNom codes or practice specific ones - the available sets are determined via the Administration|Lookups screen.

The Presenting Complaint selection screen is:

The selection fields are:
Type - this can be set to All or either 'Presenting Complaint' or 'Presenting Complaint (VeNom)'.  All selects both.
Search - enter the text top search for.  As per the example above, this does a 'contains' search rather than a 'starts with' search.

 

The Diagnosis selection screen is:

The selection fields are:
Type - this can be set to All or either 'Diagnosis' or 'Diagnosis (VeNom)'.  All selects both.
Search - enter the text top search for.  As per the example above, this does a 'contains' search rather than a 'starts with' search.

In both cases, you can click on the required item to select it and return to the Problem Edit screen or press Cancel to return without making a selection.

Create/Edit Reminder

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This screen is used to create and edit reminders. Normally reminders are created automatically by the system (ie as a result of invoicing an annual vaccination, the system will create the reminder for the next one), but they can also be created manually using this screen.
Similarly, they are normally processed automatically by the Reporting - Reminders processing. However, in some circumstances you may want to cancel them or change their due date manually.

The fields are as follows:

Reminder Type - the Type of the reminder
Due Date - the date when the reminder is due
Next Reminder - the date when the reminder is next due to be sent. This is calculated as the Due Date plus the Interval for the current reminder count.
Status - this can be In Progress (ie active), Completed (ie the associated event, eg the vaccination, has occurred), or Cancelled. Normally the system will adjust the state to Completed (when the event occurs) or Cancelled (when the reminder becomes too old), but you can also change the state using this screen.
Reminders Sent - displays the number of reminder notifications generated. Note that if the same reminder was sent by say both email and SMS, this only counts as 1, not 2 reminders sent, as we sent the same reminder by two methods. However, the items display will show both of these, and they will have the same reminder count.
Last Sent - the date on when the reminder was last sent
Completed - the date on which the reminder was completed. Note that if the reminder is cancelled by the system, the date on which this happened is not shown here, is this is a Completed date, not a Cancelled or Completed date.
Product - the associated product
Clinician - the associated clinician

Items

The items tab shows the times and methods by which a reminder has or will be sent.

Create/Edit Visit

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This window is used to create or edit the patient's visit record. Note that if you are using the workflow facilities, and in particular the Consult button on the Workflow|Work List screen, then the visit record will be created for you.

The fields are as follows:
Start Date - the date on which the visit started - defaults to today
Complete Date - the date on which the visit was completed
Reason - the reason for the visit
Summary - an optional summary of the visit
Clinician - the clinician
Status - you can set this to In Progress or Completed

The Print button will print the complete visit information (ie including notes, medication, weight, etc) - not just the above information.

Add Problem to Visit

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This prompt is displayed when creating a new Problem:

New Problems can be added to the most recent Visit, or to a new Visit.

Click:

  • OK to add the Problem to the selected Visit
  • Cancel to cancel Problem creation

 

 

Create/Edit Addendum

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This is the screen used to create or edit an Addendum in the patient's medical records.

Addendum records are used to annotate Medication or Note records after they have been locked.

The patient history is displayed below, for reference.

The fields are as follows:

  • Date - the date of the record was created
  • Note - the note text
  • Clinician - the clinician

Create/Edit Link

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This is the screen used to create or edit a hyperlink in the patient's medical records.
This is typically used to reference patient data in an external system.
In PDF versions of the medical records, the hyperlink will be clickable.

The fields are as follows:

  • Description - description of the link. If supplied, this will be displayed in the summary and printed records, else the URL will be.
  • Date - the date of the record - defaults to today
  • Clinician - the clinician
  • URL - the hyperlink

 

 

 

Create/Edit Weight

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This window is used to create or edit the patient's weight record.

The fields are as follows:
Date - the date on which the weight was measured - defaults to today
Weight - the weight
Units - the units - you can select Grams, Kilograms, or Pounds
Clinician - the clinician

New Medication Record prompt

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The New Medication Record prompt is displayed when creating Medication records  from:

  • Patients|Medical Records|Summary
  • Patients|Medical Records|Problems

When Medication records are created this way:

  • the customer is not invoiced
  • the medication quantity selected does not change the stock level

If there is no need to invoice the customer, or change stock levels, click OK.

If the customer should be invoiced, then click Cancel, and add the medication via:

  • Customer|Charges
  • the Visit Editor

New Visit & Note

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This screen is used to create both a patient Visit and a Note in the patient's medical records.

The patient history is displayed below, for reference.

This should NOT be used to create a normal consult visit (for this you should use the Check-In button on the Workflow - Scheduling screen). It is intended for use when creating a note unrelated to another visit, say as a result of a phone call.

The fields are as follows:
Date - the date of the visit and note - defaults to today
Reason - the reason for the visit
Note - the note text goes here. If needed you can change the size of the note window using the handle at the bottom left of the text window.
Clinician - the clinician to assign to the visit and note