Departments represent areas of a practice (e.g. Consulting, Surgery, Emergency) and are used to:
There may be any number of Departments; these are independent of practice Locations.
To use Departments, support need to be enabled on the Practice by selecting the Enable Departments option. When enabled, the current Department will be shown at the top-right of the screen, next to the practice Location.
Departments may be viewed and edited in Administration - Organisation.
By default, users can select from all Departments. To restrict this, assign the Departments a user can select from on their Departments tab.
Each charge item may be assigned a Department. This defaults to the current Department.
If there is a service ratio associated with the Department, this determines the price of the product.
Department Service Ratios can be used to apply a multiplier to prices for products of a given product type for a Department. They can also have a calendar, to determine when the multiplier applies.
The multiplier is used when generating charges. This facility is designed to enable:
Department Service Ratios are similar to Location Service Ratios except they provide finer control over pricing. Department Service Ratios take precedence over Location Service Ratios.