Working in the Appointment Book-Side Tabs

Working in the Appointment Book-Side Tabs

Appointment Book-Side Tabs

The appointment book is one of the main Impulse modules

Patient details, billing, payments, pathology results, word processing etc can all be accessed from the appointment book.

Side tabs will open screens with the information pertaining to the tab selected.

Left Hand Side Task-bar

 DATE: Opens Patient Appointment Screen

This screen has several options available to search information
Patient information can be searched by File Id, Name,Date of Birth,Location,Provider,Date Range or Treatment

Status Bar

All: Opens all status of patient appointment available in status bar
Active: shows all Active appointments. Details of the appointment and patient appear under List 1
Cancelled: Shows all appointments that have been cancelled. If a comment was added as a reason for the cancellation it can be viewed.
Moved: Appointments that have been moved to another appointment date
Arrived: Patients arrived at a selected appointment time.
Not Arrived: Patients whose status was not changed when they arrived at the appointment time
Attended: Patient status updated to having completed a consultation
No Attend: Patient status changed from Arrived to Did Not Attend [DNA]. Patient did not wait.
Search Criteria can be narrowed by entering information in the screen between the Status bar and the List 1

Bottom Task-bar

Select: Narrows the search criteria to The patient selected in the list
Goto: Takes you to the appointment in the appointment book for the patient and date selected
View Comment: Opens the comment entered
Print: Prints the list on screen
Search and Clear are future release options
Cancel: close screen

Search

Opens the option Free Appointment Slots
Will open to the Location/Provider you opened the screen on in the Appointment Book
Free Slots Screen can be By Selected Day
The option to tick 1 or Multiple dates is available
Go To Individually: Use for One appointment. Patient search opens to select patient if no patient in appointment book
Make All: Select when making multiple appointments.Patient search opens to select patient if no patient in appointment book

Waiting Room

Access to all the functionality available in the Waiting Room.
Please see support sheet on Waiting room

Patient details

Access to Patient Details for selected Patient.
Please see support sheet on Patient details
All demographic and patient specific information is listed here

Account History

Access to Patient Account Enquiry screen.
All financial Transactions are listed here and this is a very comprehensive module.
Please see support sheet on Patient Account Enquiry

Billing

Opens Billing screen to bill the selected patient
Billing options are covered in the Billing KB support sheets

Payment

Opens Payment screen
Payment options are covered in the Payment KB support sheets

New Appointment.

Opens Patient Search screen to Select Patient for Appointment slot

New Patient.

Opens New Patient Screen to enter details of New Patient against the appointment slot entered

Move.

Move Selected Patient Appointment to be pasted on another appointed day

Delete

Deletes Patient Appointment.
Comment box opens to confirm appointment is to be deleted

OPV Medicare

Does Medicare Card Verification for Selected Patient [ PVM].
Patient details screen is updated with Information returned by Medicare
Usually this options are performed in Patient details so that the Return Status of the online verification is immediately in view.

OPV Veteran

Does DVA Card verification for selected Patient.[PVV]
Patient details screen is updated with Information returned by Medicare
Usually this options are performed in Patient details so that the Return Status of the online verification is immediately in view.

OPV Fund

Verify's Health fund Card for patient selected [PVF]
Patient details screen is updated with Information returned by Medicare
Usually this options are performed in Patient details so that the Return Status of the online verification is immediately in view.

Right Hand Side Task-bar

Notum and Medscript

These modules are only available with Clinical Package and when user is logged in as a Medico-Legal Provider.
KB Support sheet has full details of these Modules

Imaging

Opens Image Manager application.
Scanned documents,PDF Documents,X-Rays,Images in jpeg, or png etc attached to patient details may be viewed here.
Imaging KB support sheet has full details on this module.

Pathology

Patients pathology results can be viewed here.
Only the Medic-Legal Provider can action any pathology result.
Pathology KB support sheet has full details on this option.

Letters

Opens the Document Manager for the patient selected in the appointment book.
Document manager KB support sheet has full details on this option.

Not arrived

All patients in the appointment book will have this Status selected as a default and will be colour coded Blue.

Arrived

Selected when the patient arrives for the appointment
The Status of the patient appointment will change to Orange when this option is clicked

Into Consult

Clicked when the patient goes in to see the doctor.
Appointment status is changed to Green

Completed

Patient consult is complete.
When clicked message comes to screen asking if you wish to bill patient now
If Selected then billing can be completed for patient and status will change to Purple

DNA

Patient arrived but did not wait to be attended. Comment box will open to enter reason for leaving.
Click OK To Comment entered against patient and status will change to Dark Grey

Cancel

Patient appointment is cancelled.
Confirmation message will come to screen to confirm cancellation.

Treatments

Opens Appointment Treatment Type Set Up screen
See KB support sheet on treatments

Schedules

Setting up a Schedule for a Provider screen opens
See KB support sheet on Appointment Schedules.

Exit

Closes appointment book





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