The Visit tab
The Visit screen has all the recall and appointment information on your patient. Before making an appointment for a patient you come to this screen to check on their visit status. At a glance this screen shows you:
- Three Recall Dates that show you what the patient needs and when.
- The second section has Last
and Next Visits information.
This section is not as important as the third section when using the
Appointments
scheduler.
- All current Appointments in the System for this patient are listed in the third section. To schedule an appointment for this patient you select how many wees ahead the appointment is for and click the Make Appointment button. To learn more about scheduling please read the Appointments chapter. The field No Show Count adds up how many "no show" visits this patient has (NS). When a patient does not show up for a visit change the Visit For... field to "NS".
- The fourth section as all Appointments
in Archive for
the patient. To read more about how appointments are archived click here.
. This calculates the
recall date as being the either the most recent appointment
date for the patient, or the date in Last Visit if filled, plus
the Visit Interval is associated wth the patient's primary
diagnosis, or selected by clicking in the field and making a selection
in months! If there is no numbers entered these are the internal
defaults