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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.
Non-Patient Appointments
Add non-patient appointments to the Appointment Book.

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.
  - Standard Appointments
    Schedule an appointment for a new or existing patient.
  - Fit-in Appointments
    Add fit-in appointments for patients without an appointment who are seeking medical attention.
  - Recurring Appointments
    Schedule recurring appointments for a patient.
  - Telehealth Appointments
    Set up a Telehealth appointment for a patient.
  - Non-Patient Appointments
    Add non-patient appointments to the Appointment Book.
  - Reserved Appointments
    A reserved appointment is a time slot that is kept unbooked for any reason.
  - Reschedule Appointments
    Reschedule an appointment to an alternative time slot by drag-and-drop or cut-and-paste.
  - Patient Alerts
    Alerts display important information about a patient.
  - Copy Appointments
    You can copy-and-paste an appointment into a different time slot or between appointment books.
  - Delete Appointments
    Delete appointments that are no longer required.
- Searching Appointments
  Search for recorded appointments.
- 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

Non-Patient Appointments

Add non-patient appointments to the Appointment Book.

About this task

Examples of non-patient appointments are staff training sessions and visits by drug company representatives.

Procedure

Open the Appointment module. Either:
- Click Appointment Book.
- Select 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.
To add a non-patient appointment for one practitioner:
1. If necessary, click the Week icon to put the Appointment Book into Week view.
2. Select the practitioner for whom you want to assign the appointment.
3. Select an appointment slot. Alternatively, to create the same appointment across multiple days, click-and-drag your mouse across multiple appointment slots.
4. Type in some text to describe the non-patient appointment.
5. Press Ctrl+Enter.
To add a non-patient appointment for multiple practitioners:
1. If necessary, click the Day icon to put the Appointment Book into Day view.
2. Click the time you want to start the appointment, then drag your mouse pointer across multiple columns/rows to select multiple slots simultaneously.
3. Press Ctrl+Enter.

Results

The non-patient appointment block appears in the Appointment Book.