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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.
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.
Tips for Searching
Wildcards

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.
  - Patient Search - Standard
  - Patient Search - Advanced
    If you do not have enough specific information to select a patient, you can conduct an advanced search of the patient database.
  - Patient Search - Medicare Card
    Swipe a patient's Medicare card to display all patient's listed on that card.
  - Search by Patient Name
    Search for a patient using their name.
  - Tips for Searching
- Adding New Patients
  Add new patients to Pracsoft.
- 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.

Wildcards

A Wildcard character is a special character that can be used as a place holder or substitute for other characters (limitations apply). The following examples demonstrate the use of Wildcard characters:


> * (Asterisk)	The * symbol can be used to ignore any character or characters.
	Example 1: 'SEN' in the Surname field finds all the ANDERSEN, PETERSEN, JOHANNESSEN families, and any others ending in 'SEN'. Example 2: 'ANDEN' in the Surname field finds ANDERSEN, and any other names starting with 'AND' and ending with 'EN'. There may be any number of characters in place of the asterisk.

Implied Wildcard	If the first character or characters of a name are entered, omitting the trailing characters, the search finds all names starting with the specified characters. In other words the * (asterisk) is implied - do not type the asterisk.
	Example 1: The letter A in the Surname field finds all names starting with the letter A. Example 2: 'ANDE' in the Surname field finds all names starting with 'ANDE'.