Appointment Right click Menu Options

An appointment can have various statuses. Some statuses are system defined while others can be defined by users. All the statuses in the system will be present in the status sub menu. For more information on Appointment Statuses see "Legend". 

All the practice rooms which are defined in the system by users will be present under this sub menu. Users of the system can assign any patient to a practice room. The appointment of the patient when assigned to the practice room, will display an additional icon. For more information see "Practice Rooms". 

This form will open which shows details. A message can be inserted in the message box & this can be read on the bill atached to the patient.

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Click Private Bill then enter the Item number. For more information on how to bill patients see "Bill". 

Click Quick Bill for an the Item 23 code.  For more information see "Bill".

Click to view the bill. If more than one bill is present for the appointment then a grid will be displayed containing the list of bills for the appointment. You can view any bill by double clicking on the bill record.

Viewing a patient's clinical profile from the appointment screen can be performed either by double clicking an appointment or by selecting Clinical Profile from this menu. Detailed explanation about clinical profile can be found in the section "Clinical Profile".

If the appointment is for a temporary patient then clinical profile will not be loaded.

Users can register temporary patient appointments using this menu. The menu will remain disabled if the patient in the appointment is already registered in the system. For more information on how to register a patient please see "Register Patient". 

Delete the selected appointment.

To learn about the restrictions involving deleting an appointment please see the section "Deleting Appointment".

Rapidly create a medical certificate without going back into the clinical profile screen.

Users can mark an appointment as "Can Come Early" which is a flag whereby the user knows that if any earlier appointment is cancelled, then the system will prompt the user to view the appointments which are flagged as "Can Come Early". It is totally up to the user whether he or she wishes to make any changes to the appointment screen.