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The iPhone/iPad Interface was created to access basic patient and appointment data from outside of the office. The interface will allow your providers to add new patients, review clinical history, and send an electronic care slip to the Orders Ability within MacPractice.
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This article reviews the general usage of the iPhone/iPad Interface. Each interface behaves essentially the same, but is tailored to the format of the iPhone or the iPad.
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In this guide, we presume you already have the interface installed and configured. You can download and install the iPhone or iPad interface from the MacPractice Downloads page. |
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By clicking the Preferences Ability, you're taken to the above screen on the right, where you can adjust a limited number of options. You should review these and adjust them to meet your needs before progressing further. The available Preferences are, from top to bottom:
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This screen also lists the type and version of Interface you're currently using. Schedule
Schedule Ability
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The Schedule Ability on the Interface allows you to review the office schedule. While you cannot make any additional appointments, you're able to access your entire appointment history.
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If you don't want to include a particular resource included in the results, you can uncheck the resource in the left pane by touching the checkbox.
Patients Ability
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The Patients Ability in the Interface allows you to review information in a patient's account.
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Note: Currently there's a quirk where you have to navigate to the Schedule Ability and select a patient from there before any information will display in the Patients Ability. |
There are many similarities to the Patient Ability within MacPractice, although some information is still unavailable on the Interface.
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Clinical: This tab contains information that has been added to the patient's Clinical record in the Clinical Tab in MacPractice. You're able to add Vital records from here.
Patient: This tab contains the patient's demographic information as stored in the Patients Ability in the Patient Tab.
Appt Info: This tab will be present if there is a linked appointment you tapped on in the Schedule.
Follow-Ups: This tab tracks any follow-up/recalls listed on the patient's account.
Referrals: This tab lists any referrals made on the patient's account in the Patient tab of the Patients Ability.
Custom: This tab contains any information added into the Custom section of the Patient tab of the Patients Ability.
Appts: This tab lists all appointments
Notes: This tab pulls in information from the Notes section in the Patient tab of the Patients Ability in MacPractice. Despite the name, it does NOT pull in any Notes associated with the patient in the Notes Ability.
Emergency: This tab contains the contents of the Emergency section of the Patient tab of the Patients Ability.
Post Charge: This tab allows a user to post charges to a patient's ledger from the interface. These charges are posted as an Order within MacPractice as a Careslip Order, which users can view in MacPractice as long as they have the appropriate privileges set.
Orders: This tab allows a user to review and add Orders to the Orders Ability in MacPractice.
Rx Ability
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The Rx Ability in the Interface allows a user to review the Active Meds and Inactive Meds for a specific patient, as well as any details added in the Prescribed Date, SIG, Additional Sig, and Special Instructions fields in the Rx Ability in MacPractice.
Reports
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The Reports Ability on the Interface allows a user to access the Daily Report for the last month. You can filter this report by Provider or Office.
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This is the only report accessible from the Reports Ability. Any other reports must be run on the MacPractice Server or Client software. |
Referrers
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The Referrers Ability of the Interface allows you to review all of your Referrers and any Patients that have a referral listed with that Provider.