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Appointment Management
After you have set up your Appointment Book, schedule appointments and send reminders.
Searching Appointments
Search for recorded appointments.
Patient Appointment Schedules
Check a patient's recorded appointment schedule.

Appointment Management
After you have set up your Appointment Book, schedule appointments and send reminders.
- Scheduling Appointments
  Use Pracsoft to book future appointments and record services provided without an appointment, for example, fit-in appointments for walk-in patients.
- Searching Appointments
  Search for recorded appointments.
  - Searching Next Available Appointment Slots
    Search for the next available appointment slot.
  - Patient Appointment Schedules
    Check a patient's recorded appointment schedule.
  - Linking Appointments to Patients
    Manually link an appointment to a patient record.
- Recalls in Pracsoft
  Patient recalls can be associated to appointments.
- Email Appointment Reminders
  Send emails to patients to remind them about appointments.
- Display SMS Message Status in the Appointment Book
  Display the status of SMS messages to patients and their replies in the Appointment Book.
- Printing Appointments
  Print patient appointments.
- Managing Appointment Books
  A default Appointment Book is provided with Pracsoft.
- Appointment Book Reference

Patient Appointment Schedules

Check a patient's recorded appointment schedule.

Procedure

To open the Appointment module, either:
- Click Appointment Book.
- Select Waiting Room > Appointment Book.
If your practice has multiple Appointment Books, select the Appointment Book that includes the patient's appointments.
In the date/time matrix, click the time slot in which you want to schedule an appointment, or click-and drag across multiple time slots to schedule a longer appointment.
Enter the patient's surname, comma, first name (or part of), or the first name and surname without commas. Alternatively, you can also search for patients by using the patient's Chart Number field. To search for a chart number, use the format [x] where x equals the chart number. For example, if you enter Andrews, Jennifer [123a], this could be returned:
Press Enter.
If there is more than one matching patient or no patient is located, the Select Patient window appears. Select the patient.
Click Show Appointments.

Results

The appointments for the selected patient are displayed.