The new Arrivals Panel is a long sought after feature which was suggested and guided through by many of Praktika’s users. It combines a few requests into a single interface which, we believe, will be welcomed by receptionists, doctors and practice managers.

Its main objective is to provide a highly visual interactive interface to check and change today’s patients arrival and response status.

The Arrivals Panel is also accompanied by the new mouse right-click functionality on the appointment blocks to quickly change the arrival and response status.

This is the first in the chain of changes concerning the appointment status handling in Praktika. It will be followed by the new treatment of appointment cancellations, the cancellation list, custom icons and statuses.

The Arrival Panels can be opened and closed by clicking the arrival panels button in the top left corner of the Appointment Book.

• Patient full name (incl. preferred)
• Patient telephone numbers
• Patient photo (if any) or gender placeholder
• Estimated Time of Arrival or Waiting Time (if patient has arrived)
• Late Time (if patient is late)
• Provider (name and colour)
• Appointment times
• Buttons to quickly change the status: FTA, Cancelled, Arrived, At Surgery, Left Practice.

1. Red – cancelled appointment
2. Black – FTA
3. Green – completed appointment

Open the Panel and click the buttons that correspond to the change of the arrivals status.

“Arrived”,  “At Surgery”, “FTA” and “Cancelled” buttons are enabled for incomplete appointments only.

“Left Practice” – available for the completed appointments only.

If you need to undo the change, click again on the button you pressed.

For “FTA” and “Cancelled” – double-click to reset.

We have enabled the mouse right-click functionality for the Appointment blocks to facilitate the management of the arrival and patient response status.

There has also been a change in the logic of what responses are available at various stages of the appointment existence.

An ability to record Diagnodent exams has been added to Praktika.

Now you can import Emails into the Patient Communication file. For that save your email (including the attachments) as *.eml file and import it in the Communication section by choosing “Emails” as the document type in the Import Document interface. Double click on the email to display the content of the saved email: it should start your Mail application and show the email there.

We have added a facility to record external events in Praktika. This can be done within the Communication section or at the Recalls section. It is meant to record generic important events that are not directly managed by Praktika (like SMS, emails, documents, etc.). You can record posting things, delivery failures, couriering parcels, etc.

All DMA members using Praktika can now save lots of time by importing DMA transaction files straight away to Praktika.  There is a new DMA Management Tab in the Management Module to import and process the files as well as a button in the Patient Summary to show a particular patient’s DMD transactions. To see what the DMA is, please look at the end of this Newsletter.

The document notes in the communication files are now editable. Just click on the note to bring up the Edit Note popup where you can modify and save the content of the note.

The scan interface now allows to save and upload several images at once. If the screen contains more than 1 image, it switches the view into the multiple view mode, allows you to select the desired ones and save them with a single click.

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