Enabling patient online booking of planned treatment
Ideally Receptionists secure bookings from patients when the patients depart Reception. However, this is not always possible, and an alternative is to empower the patients to later self-book online.
Receptionists may be prompted in the Departure Task List to issue patients with a web address for later patient self-booking of planned treatment appointments, if Providers meet certain requirements to make this work.
To meet Provider requirements for patient planned treatment online booking
The practice must have Appointment Workflow configured because a Planned Treatment Online Booking link can only be sent from its Departure Task List at the point of Patient checkout. There is no other way to send it.
A Patient requires an Appointment for Today’s Date.
The Patient requires a Treatment Plan on the Chart Tab, and a minimum of one appointment Planned, with time specified for the Service.
Only Patient planned appointments on the Chart Tab that are marked as To Be Booked will show in the Departure Task List, so Providers must know to tick this checkbox. They must also ensure that the planned treatment has an estimated time (duration). EXACT calculates the sum of the planned services per appointment, and this displays in the Edit Appointment screen Expected Time field:
When charting, the Provider needs to specify to Book this Appointment:
A) Double-click the Appointment to open the Edit Appointment window.
B) Check (tick) the Book this Appointment checkbox and complete all other details in the screen.
C) Check that the appointment has an Expected Time (duration), calculated automatically as the sum of the services' Estimated Times.
