Clinipad users now have the option of asking the patient to sign a digital copy of their Estimates.
Instead of printing an Estimate, you can send the Estimate to Clinipad where the patient reviews the digital version, signs on the screen and then returns the Estimate to EXACT where a copy can be emailed or printed for the patient to take away, and a digital copy kept for your records.
Benefits
Practices can optionally become paper free for Estimates, with benefits in lower printing costs and no need for paper filing systems.
Patients perceive the technology as progressive.
Estimate records are digitally integrated into EXACT for listing in the Estimates list, rapid location and display, transmission by Email, and potential reporting.
Features
Default EXACT Estimate templates ship with signable areas
The Support Team can customise any Estimate template to include a signable area.
EXACT supports multiple types of Estimate.
Digital storage of patient Estimates.
Digitally signed Estimates can be guaranteed not to have been altered.
Indication within EXACT of which Estimates are signed.
Ability to reproduce the signed Estimate at any time.
Estimates can optionally be Emailed to patients or physically printed for them to take away.
Patients sign the Estimate (on the Clinipad) in the presence of the Dentist.
The signed Estimate is available for review from the Estimates list.
For security, signed Estimates cannot be deleted.
The provider can continue to work in EXACT while the patient is reviewing the Estimate.
Requirements / Prerequisites
EXACT v11.3 SP7 or later.
Clinipad registered and at least one device functional and available.
A compatible Estimate template (where the signature box has been encoded using a special PRX command).
Limitations
Signed Estimates are saved as read-only PDF forms so they cannot be altered or deleted.
While a Clinipad is booked out against a patient for Estimate signing, the Dentist is constrained to working in that Patient File - an attempt to leave the Patient File will prompt a warning and the Dentist will need to first return the Clinipad session before being allowed to navigate away from the Patient File.