Patients

The Patients menu lists the people the practice cares for. Each patient has one card: the consultations, the appointments and the billed acts all point to it.

The list of patients

Practice → Patients opens the patients as cards; switch to the list to see them in rows. Type a name in the search bar to find a patient.

Create a patient

  1. Click New in Practice → Patients.

  2. Type the patient’s name.

  3. Fill in the Identity tab: Date of Birth, gender, Nationality, phone and email.

  4. Save.

The patient is now offered in the appointments, the consultations and the acts.

The patient card

The card shows the name, the patient’s reference and age. Contact, next to the name, opens the contact record of the same person.

The Identity tab holds:

  • the identity: Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Nationality, the ID card, the languages;

  • the contact details: phone and email;

  • the doctors: Attending Physician and Deputy Physician;

  • the Contact Persons: relatives and their relationship to the patient;

  • the Key Contacts: the Emergency Contact Person, the Legal Representative and the Trusted Person.

In Belgium

The card also carries the NISS, the mutuality and the insurability answer, and the eID card fills in the identity: see The patient’s file in Belgium.

A patient’s consultations

  • In Practice → Consultations, type the patient’s name in the search bar, or group by Patient.

  • On the contact record of the patient, the Consultations button opens them all, and New there starts a consultation for that patient.

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