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Administration
Set up Pracsoft, manage configuration, user records, back ups and other maintenance.
Practitioner and User Records
Thre are two types of user in Pracsoft: User and Practitioner.
Adding Practitioners and Users
Adding a Practitioner to Pracsoft
Define settings for a registered practitioner.
Locations, Provider Numbers, and Minor IDs

Administration
Set up Pracsoft, manage configuration, user records, back ups and other maintenance.
- 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.
  - Account Examples
  - Managing User Accounts
  - Adding Administrative 'Entity' Users
    Add entity users to assist with billing.
  - Adding Practitioners and Users
    - Adding a Practitioner to Pracsoft
      Define settings for a registered practitioner.
      - Practitioner Details
      - Locations, Provider Numbers, and Minor IDs
      - Set up a Practitioner to use Online Claiming
        Indicate which of your registered practitioners will be using Online Claiming.
    - Adding Specialists
      The process for adding a Specialist is much the same as adding a Practitioner.
    - Adding Allied Health Workers
  - Editing Practitioners and Users
  - Inactive Practitioners
  - Inactive Users
    In Pracsoft it is not possible to permanently delete users. However it is possible to flag them as being inactive.
  - Location Specific Practice Numbers
  - Referring Practitioners
    Referring Practitioners can be pre-defined in a similar way to standard Practitioners so that regular referrals can be referenced easily when recording a patient's visit.
  - Registering a Practitioner to use GST
  - Security Levels
- 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.
- MedicalDirector Automatic Updates
- Maintenance Utilities
- Pracsoft System Requirements
  This information applies to Pracsoft 4.3.
- Backup and Restore
- PKI NASH and Location Certificates Expiring 2022
- Service Improvement Program

Locations, Provider Numbers, and Minor IDs

In Pracsoft there are two definitions for 'location':

The physical address of your Practice, as registered with Medicare. Medicare requires that a practitioner use a different Provider Number for each different location (different physical address) at which he practises.
The location field in the practitioner's record. Typically you would simply record the name of your Practice in this field. However you can also use this field to differentiate between two locations within the same Practice (e.g. 'Room 1' and 'Room 2') or to differentiate between visits at the Practice and visits at a Nursing Home for example.

A Minor ID is required by Medicare (assigned to your Practice by MedicalDirector) to differentiate it from other Practices, and is required for online claiming. Therefore, provided your Practice has one ABN, it could operate from multiple physical locations (different Practice branches), with both branches even sharing the same patient database. In this instance, you would inform Medicare of this arrangement and of which practitioners intend to work at both locations. For each different location, Medicare would assign each practitioner a different Provider Number.