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Set up Pracsoft, manage configuration, user records, back ups and other maintenance.
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Database Utility
Use the Database Utility to perform a variety of database administrative tasks.

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
    - 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.

Database Utility

Use the Database Utility to perform a variety of database administrative tasks.

Before you begin

The Database Utility improves performance and reduces the disk space consumed by the database and log files by removing empty data and log pages.

Procedure

To access the Database Utility:

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 . If this is the first time you have tried to access the Database Utility during this session of working in MedicalDirector Maintenance, you will be prompted to select a Configuration, and enter your Username and Password.
In the Database Maintenance Wizard, you will be prompted to ensure you have performed a backup before you proceed. Click Next to continue.
Select your MedicalDirector Database Server, and then the name of the database you want to perform maintenance on. The default combination is HCNSQL07 and HCN, as shown in our example below.
Indicate which maintenance tasks you want to perform. Hover your mouse over each information icon for a description of the associated task.
Click Next to continue and confirm the list of selected database maintenance tasks.
Click Start to commence the database maintenance tasks and confirm the action.
You can monitor the progress of each task.
Click Finish to close the Database Maintenance Wizard.

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