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Administration
Set up Clinical, manage configuration, user records, updates, back ups and other maintenance.
Backup and Restore
The MedicalDirector Backup and Restore utilities backup and restore Clinical and Pracsoft.
Maintenance and Recovery Planning For Your System
Your practice is responsible for protecting its own data files. If this process fails, your financial and clinical records can be lost.
Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy
Backing up the data for your practice management and clinical software is one of the most important tasks that should be performed every day.

Administration
Set up Clinical, manage configuration, user records, updates, back ups and other maintenance.
- MedicalDirector Automatic Updates
- System Configurations
  Manage database configurations.
- Managing Practitioner and User Records
- Merge Clinical Lists
- Options
  Clinical provides numerous user-definable options for tailoring the program to your requirements.
- MyMedicare Import Wizard
  Use the MyMedicare Import Wizard to update the MyMedicare status of all your Clinical and Pracsoft patients simultaneously.
- Telehealth Widget
- Adding New Widgets
  Add new widgets from the widget store.
- eHealth
- Managing Communications
  Use the Manage Communications utility to configure how Investigation Results are imported to Clinical.
- Medicare Healthcare Identifiers Service
- Medicare's Health Identifier Service and Clinical
- HESA PKI Certificates
- Backup and Restore
  The MedicalDirector Backup and Restore utilities backup and restore Clinical and Pracsoft.
  - Maintenance and Recovery Planning For Your System
    Your practice is responsible for protecting its own data files. If this process fails, your financial and clinical records can be lost.
    - Maintain Your Computers and Network
    - Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy
      Backing up the data for your practice management and clinical software is one of the most important tasks that should be performed every day.
    - Backup Cycle Example
  - Backup and Restore with the Backup and Restore Utilities
    Use Clinical's Backup utility to backup your practice's data.
  - Backup and Restore with SQL Server Management Studio
  - Backup and Restore MDExchange PKI Certificates
- MedicalDirector Mobility
  MedicalDirector Mobility is a utility for downloading patient records to a mobile computer, allowing you to work with them off-site.
- Technical Reference
- Language Codes Reference
  Instances of 'nec' found following refer to "Not Elsewhere Classified".
- Clinical System Requirements
  This information applies to MedicalDirector Clinical 4.3.

Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy

Backing up the data for your practice management and clinical software is one of the most important tasks that should be performed every day.

Most practices are aware of the need to secure their data but seldom check the integrity of the process by restoring data to confirm that the backup was successful. Computer systems are generally reliable but most users will need to recover from a system failure at some time. It is important that you know how to retrieve data should the need arise. We recommend:

Take a daily backup of all files that are important to the running of your practice. For example, Clinical data, practice management data, document files, and financial records.
Keep separate backup media for each day of the week.
Take some backups off-site but keep them readily accessible in case they are needed.
Periodically restore a backup to a temporary location to check the integrity of the backup process and to test the ability of your staff to perform this task.
Keep permanent weekly, fortnightly, or monthly backups. This provides a historical record that could be used to restore your data.
A good backup strategy is business critical, therefore consult with your IT specialist to ensure that your strategy is appropriate for your situation.