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Patient Management
Manage the patient flow through your practice, search for patient records, create new patient records, add referrals and update patient details.
Adding New Patients
Add new patients to Pracsoft.
Patient Details
Country-of-Birth and Ethnicity in Pracsoft
References

Patient Management
Manage the patient flow through your practice, search for patient records, create new patient records, add referrals and update patient details.
- Searching for Patients
  Search for patients using a standard or advanced search, by swiping a patient's Medicare card or by name in the Patient Details window.
- Adding New Patients
  Add new patients to Pracsoft.
  - Adding Emergency Contacts
  - Adding Families of Patients
  - Adding Next-of-Kin Records
  - Adding/Editing Patient Records via the Appointment Book
  - Patient Details
    - Country-of-Birth and Ethnicity in Pracsoft
    - Languages Spoken by Your Patient
    - Related Patients
    - Country-Of-Birth Codes
    - Language Codes
      The following language codes are a subset of data provided by the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS), and used in Pracsoft when you record a patient's spoken languages.
- Editing Patient Records
  Edit a patient's demographics, contact details, emergency contacts, and so on.
- Merging Patient Records
  Merge duplicate patient records.
- Referrals
  Attach a referral to a patient record.
- Waiting Room
  The Waiting Room is where you track the movements of patients in your actual Waiting Room at your Practice.

References

Definition of Ethnicity from Wikipedia:

An ethnic group is a group of human beings whose members identify with each other, usually on a presumed or real common heritage. Ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and the recognition of common cultural, linguistic, religious, behavioral or biological traits, real or presumed, as indicators of contrast to other groups.

Definition of Ethnicity from the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics:

Race or ethnic identity, despite its imprecise categorization, is a useful means of identifying population differences in mechanisms of disease and treatment effects. Therefore, race and other arbitrary demographic and physiological variables have appropriately served as a helpful guide to clinical management and to clinical trial participation.

Source of Data used in Clinical / Pracsoft:

Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG), Second Edition 2005-06 (cat. no. 1249.0) Aug 2011 version and supporting material.

See http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/1249.0

1269.0 - Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), 2011

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/1269.02011?OpenDocument