Creating Patient Records

If you run Pracsoft in conjunction with Clinical, add new patients only inPracsoft: patients added this way are transferred to Clinical automatically.

For Clinical-only users, new patient records are created by pressing Ctrl+F2 from the Clinical front screen. Enter the patient's information, ensuring to include their Medicare/DVA number if available. See Managing Patient Records.

Further, when creating a new patient via Clinical, it is recommended that you validate their IHI Number at that time. This is done via the patient details window (Ctrl+D from within the patient's record). Note however, this requires that you have first;

• Imported both your IHI Signing and IHI Encryption certificates via PKI options.
• Recorded the patient's Medicare/DVA number (validation is not possible for patients missing this number).