Progress Notes

Record notes about a patient's visit to the practice in Progress Notes.

This includes their reason for visiting, examinations performed on them, medications you prescribed on the day, and so on. To manage a patient's Progress Notes, select the Progress tab in the Clinical Window.

The Progress Notes window is divided into two main sections;

• The left-hand section is where notes are recorded. Text can be typed directly in this area, and can be formatted by altering font, colour and appearance (bold, italics and underline) if required. Many notes are recorded here automatically by Clinical as you use its various tools, and notes are automatically saved when you leave a patient's record (provided this option is enabled).
• The right-hand section is where past progress notes are stored, with the upper-right displaying the progress note history, and the lower the details of any selected historical note.

  If no notes have been recorded and no actions performed whilst in the patient's Progress Notes, you will be prompted as to whether to save a record of their visit. Upon closing a patient's record, the elapsed time the notes were open, as well as the start and finish times are recorded in the database.