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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
Related Patients
Defining Payer Relationships

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
      - Defining Payer Relationships
      - Viewing Relationships
    - 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.

Defining Payer Relationships

Locate the patient whose record you want to edit.
Within the Patient Details window, click EditThe Edit Patient Details window appears.
Select the Payment Details tab.
In the Payer Details section, select the Other (Payer) option. The Select Payer For window appears. Note that if this patient already has another patient selected as their payer and you select a different patient, click
Select a patient to become the Payer for the current patient.
Click

to confirm your selection.