1. © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill Career Education Computers in the Medical Office Chapter 4: Entering Patient Information

2. 4-2 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. How Patient Information is Organized in Medisoft  Basic information about patients is entered in the Patient/Guarantor dialog box  Selecting Patients/Guarantors and Cases on the Lists menu displays the Patient List dialog box

3. 4-3 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. The Patient List Dialog Box Patient Information Case Information

4. 4-4 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Entering a New Patient  Click the New Patient button in the Patient List dialog box

5. 4-5 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Entering a New Patient Name, Address tab Patient/Guarantor dialog box

6. 4-6 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Creating a Chart Number  Must be eight characters in length  No special characters such as hyphens, periods, or spaces  No two chart numbers can be the same

7. 4-7 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Entering a New Patient Other Information tab Patient/Guarantor dialog box

8. 4-8 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Entering a New Patient  The Type field indicates whether an individual is a patient or guarantor  Guarantor is selected if the person responsible for payment on the patient’s account is not a patient of the practice

9. 4-9 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Medisoft’s Search Features  Searching for information is accomplished using one of the two search features:  Search For and Field boxes  Locate button

10. 4-10 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Medisoft’s Search Features  The Search For and Field boxes are found at the top of many dialog boxes

11. 4-11 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Medisoft’s Search Features  The text to be searched for is entered in the Search For box  The selection in the Field box determines which data field should be searched

12. 4-12 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Medisoft’s Search Features  The Locate buttons are used to display the Locate dialog box.

13. 4-13 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Medisoft’s Search Features  The text to be searched for is entered in the Field Value box  The Search Type options specify the guidelines for the search  The Fields box controls the data field that is searched

14. 4-14 McGraw-Hill Career Education © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Editing Patient Information  Search for patient  Use Edit button to display dialog box  Make necessary changes  Save changes