Home
Appointment Management
After you have set up your appointment book, schedule appointments and send reminders.
Managing Appointment Books
A default Appointment Book is provided with Pracsoft.
Appointment Sessions
Days Absent

Appointment Management
After you have set up your appointment book, schedule appointments and send reminders.
- Searching Appointments
  Search for recorded appointments.
- Scheduling Appointments
  Use Pracsoft to book future appointments and record services provided without an appointment, for example, fit-in appointments for walk-in patients.
- Recalls in Pracsoft
- Email Appointment Reminders
  You can email patients to remind them of upcoming appointments.
- Telehealth and Pracsoft
  Telehealth is enabled in Pracsoft by default in Pracsoft 3.19 and later.
- Printing Appointments
- Appointment Book Reference
- Managing Appointment Books
  A default Appointment Book is provided with Pracsoft.
  - Adding Practitioners to the Appointment Book
    The Appointments module has its own built-in list of Practitioners, which is separate to the list of Practitioners within your MedicalDirector Pracsoft database.
  - Appointment Details
  - Appointment Notes for Patients
  - Appointment Permissions
  - Appointment Sessions
    - Days Absent
    - Special Sessions
    - Standard Sessions
      Set up standard sessions.
  - Appointment Status
    The status of a patient's appointment can be highlighted in the Appointment Book.
  - Appointment Types
  - Add Appointment Books

Days Absent

Waiting Room > Appointment Book

In the Appointment Book, you can indicate the days on which a specific practitioner will be absent. Absent days are considered a type of Appointment Session.

Open the Appointment module by either:
- Clicking
- Selecting Waiting Room > Appointment Book
If you have multiple Appointment Books in use, select the Appointment Book you want to use via the associated drop-down list.
Select Setup > Availability > Days Absent. The Scheduling Days Absent window appears.
From the Practitioner drop-down list select the practitioner you want to create an absent session for.
Select a date range for the session.
When you have completed your session times, click Save to confirm your settings.
Click

to close the Scheduling Days Absent window.