Quick, Easy and Powerful search facilities…

Finding patient information quickly and easily is essential in a busy practice. Whether on a phone to a Patient, Practitioner, GP, Solicitor or other specialist, you need to have information in front of you in seconds so as to provide accurate answers quickly, without having to resort to searching through manual records or promising to ring back when the computer finds the information! A single keystroke combination within Practice Manager provides you with a whole host of "search by" criteria that takes a lot of beating! After all, information in a PC is only useful if you can find that info quickly and easily Search criteria for patients include; Surname, Patient Number, NHS Number, Invoice Number, Forename, First Line of Address, Telephone number(s), Postcode, Solicitors Ref., Date of Birth, Sounds Like (Phonetic Lookup) or even searches contain ning specific word or words!

Comprehensive Recording of Patient Demographic Information

Practice manager stores very detailed patient demographic information without presenting you with confusing screens that can be overloaded with information. Key information is always to hand and on display whilst secondary information is instantly available with a single click on the mouse.

Insurance Company Claim Information

Commercial Accounting systems, and even many so called "specialist systems", are not aware of, or do not take account of, the additional information that you need to record for completion of insurance claim forms. Practice Manager provides you with this option as standard. DGL works very closely with leading Insurance Companies and with Healthcode (a UK clearing house for the top 5 Insurers) to ensure that all relevant information is stored and is compatible with the respective insurer's requirements. For example, for many insurers Practice Manager can even warn you if the insurance policy number the patient has given you is valid or not.

User Defined Storage of Information

DGL recognise that every practices requirement for recording patient information will vary. Accordingly, Practice Manager has up to 5 "user defined fields" to record additional information against each patient. Screen labels and content are individually defined by the user and can be analysed and reported upon and even merged with letter templates.

"Urgent Notes" warning

You can attach an urgent note to a patients record which will pop up every time that patients information is accessed. This is often used to warn of urgent conditions or circumstances that need to be considered when talking to or dealing with that patient.

Duplicate Patients

Various helpful aids are incorporated into the software to avoid duplicate patient entry over and above the flexible patient search features. These include warnings if a patient with a similar name exists and the option to view comparable matches or to continue adding a patient as a new patient.

Medico-legal Information

Specific facilities are also available to record any relevant Medico-legal information including the Solicitors for both parties, Court information and medical report progress tracking. Hospital/GP notes and X-Rays can likewise also be recorded and tracked.

Referring Clinicians

Up to 5 referring or linked Clinicians can also be stored in the patient files if required. The screen labels can be changed to reflect the type of information that you wish to record, i.e.; Optician, Rheumatologist, Dental Practitioner, etc. Once stored you can "CC" one or all of these from within Microsoft word or automatically included them in letter/report templates.

Invoice Addressee

Practice Manager allows you to record a third party for bills to be sent to. This may be the parents or guardians of a child, a Solicitor or legal firm, Insurance Company, Hospital, GP or Club.

Patient Reports….

A wide variety of Patient reports are included as standard. These include Patients Added…, Not Invoiced…, Not written to…, Deceased…, Patient Directories…, Patients not seen since…, Patients who have/have not been seen since…, Patients with urgent comments…, Reports on user defined fields…, Patients by (Insurer, Town, County, Sex, Age, Invoice Address, GP, Solicitor, Postcode)…, Notes…, Results and X-ray tracking…, Medico-legal cases and complete data printouts for selected Patients.

And Much More…

Practice Manager allows the recording of much more information in a simple manner without cluttered screens so often seen in many programs. Additional information includes, Next of Kin contact information, Referral Source, Ethnic Origin, Date of Accident (If applicable), Marital Status and even the maiden name. Of course all this information is optional.