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Administration
Set up Pracsoft, manage configuration, user records, back ups and other maintenance.
Maintenance Utilities
Database Tasks
Importing and Exporting
Importing into Clinical/Pracsoft
Importing Demographic Data

Administration
Set up Pracsoft, manage configuration, user records, back ups and other maintenance.
- MedicalDirector Automatic Updates
- Upgrading MedicalDirector Pracsoft
- Upgrading MedicalDirector Pracsoft
- Adding your Licence Details
  After installing Pracsoft , or if you renew your Service-Level Agreement (SLA) with MedicalDirector, you will be required to enter your licence details.
- Practice Configuration for Pracsoft-only Users
- Practitioner and User Records
  Thre are two types of user in Pracsoft: User and Practitioner.
- Password Management
- Settings
- Linking Pracsoft with Clinical
  Link MedicalDirector Pracsoft with Clinical to enable patient demographic updates and immunisation data to be transferred between them.
- Maintenance Utilities
  - Database Tasks
    - Data Integrity Check
    - Database Properties
      You can access information about the Pracsoft Server computer and the databases that reside on it.
    - Database Utility
      Use the Database Utility to perform a variety of database administrative tasks.
    - HealthLink
    - HealthLink Log Files
    - Importing and Exporting
      - Exporting from Clinical/Pracsoft
      - Importing into Clinical/Pracsoft
        Importing Address Book Data
        Importing Clinical Data
        Importing Demographic Data
    - Licence Details
    - Merged Patients
    - Messenger - Emergency Access
    - General Options (Messenger)
    - Preferences (Messenger)
    - Patient Reviver
    - Patients Manager
    - Settings Manager
    - Clinical Database Tasks
    - Care Plan List Editor
    - Content Update Utility
    - Device List
    - Inactive/Active Patient Wizard
    - Link File Processor
    - Mail Merge Utility
    - Managing Communications
    - My Health Record Assisted Registration for Child Patients
    - Pregnancy Re-starter
    - Release Document Locks
  - Maintenance Tasks
- Pracsoft System Requirements
  This information applies to Pracsoft 4.3.
- Backup and Restore
- PKI NASH and Location Certificates Expiring
  PKI certificates are required by many businesses for maintaining access to digital health tools including electronic prescribing and My Health Record.
- Service Improvement Program
- Easyclaim and Online Claiming Error Codes for Pracsoft
- Moving Data to a New Server
  Move your MedicalDirector Pracsoft data to a new server and configure the workstations.

Importing Demographic Data

Before you begin

Procedure

Locate and double-click the MedicalDirector Maintenance icon

on your desktop. The MedicalDirector Maintenance window appears.
Select the Database Tasks > Common menu item.
Double-click

(Optional) If this is the first time you have tried to access Import/Export during this session of working in MedicalDirector Maintenance, you will be prompted to select a Configuration, and enter your Username and Password.
The Import/Export Wizard appears.
Click

to continue.
Select the Import option and click

to continue.
The Data Type window is displayed. Select the Demographic option and click

to continue.
The Select the Format window is displayed. Select a file format that corresponds to the file you want to import.
- To add a new file format before importing the associated file(s), click
- To edit an existing file format, select it from the list and click
  
  Some file formats cannot be modified. When adding or modifying the file format, the Format window is displayed. Enter a name for the file format.
  - Select the drop down menu in the Format field and specify your format. The details of the selected formats are displayed.
  - Select from the list of available fields and click
    
    The highlighted field is added to the Selected field section, select
    
    to add all available fields to the Selected field section.
  - Click
    
    to remove a field from the Selected field section, OR select
    
    to remove all available fields from the Selected field section.
  - Click the up arrow or down arrow to control the file format as appropriate.
  - Click OK to save format. Click
    
    to continue.
Browse to and select the file to import using
Click

to continue. The Import Data processing begins. You will be notified of its progress.
Click

to complete the import process. If you are linked to a billing package (or intend to be) it is recommended that you clear the contents of the file you just imported.
After you have selected a preference here, click the

to exit the wizard.

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