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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.
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.
Enabling Practitioners in the Appointment Book

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.
    - Synchronising Practitioners in the Appointment Book
    - Manually Add a Practitioner to the Appointment Book
    - Enabling Practitioners in the Appointment Book
    - Deactivating Practitioners in the Appointment Book
      For a given appointment book, indicate that a specific practitioner has become inactive.
  - Appointment Details
  - Appointment Notes for Patients
  - Appointment Permissions
  - Appointment Sessions
  - Appointment Status
    The status of a patient's appointment can be highlighted in the Appointment Book.
  - Appointment Types
  - Add Appointment Books

Enabling Practitioners in the Appointment Book

Waiting Room > Appointment Book

Each Appointment Book can have a number of practitioners associated with it. Then, from within each Appointment Book you can select which practitioner's appointments to view at any given time. Before you can select which practitioners will be available to your appointment book, you must first add them to your appointment book.

The example below indicates that appointment book 1 ('Undefined') is selected, and the appointment schedule for Dr. A. Practitioner is currently in view.

To define which practitioners are available to schedule appointments for, for a given appointment book:

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. In the example above, an appointment book called '1:Undefined' is selected. This is the default appointment book provided with Pracsoft.
Select Setup > Practitioners. The Practitioner Details window appears.
Tick the Use check box for each practitioner you want to make available to this Appointment Book.
Click

to confirm your selections and close this window.