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Correspondence
Work with documents, letters, and images, whether created in Clinical, imported or scanned into Clinical, or received or sent via communications services such as email, SMS and MDExchange.
Letter Writer
Use the letter writer to compose patient letters and other documentation.
Letterheads
Create a Letterhead

Correspondence
Work with documents, letters, and images, whether created in Clinical, imported or scanned into Clinical, or received or sent via communications services such as email, SMS and MDExchange.
- Communications
  Clinical has multiple communications functions that facilitate and record communications with patients, within the practice, and with other medical professionals and healthcare providers.
- Address Book
- CDA Documents
- CDA Viewer
- Messenger
  Messenger is a built-in text-based messaging utility, allowing users to communicate instantly with all staff members and practitioners on the practice network.
- Email
  Send email from within a patient's record.
- Filtering/Searching Correspondence Records
- HealthLink
- Importing ECGs into Clinical (FAQs)
  Import electronic copies of ECGs into Clinical
- Letter Writer
  Use the letter writer to compose patient letters and other documentation.
  - Auto Text
  - Bullets and Numbering
  - Creating and Editing Letters
  - Deleting Letters
  - Exporting Letters
  - Fields, Data, and the Data Toolbar
  - Formatting Paragraphs
  - Formatting Text
  - Headers and Footers
    Customise the headers and footers for your letters.
  - Inserting Other Content into a Letter
  - Inserting Other Files into a Letter
  - Labels
  - Letterheads
    - Create a Letterhead
    - Use a Letterhead
  - Mail Merge
  - Opening Letters
  - Page Numbering
    Add page numbering to letters.
  - Preferences (Letter Writer)
  - Printing Letters
  - Saving Letters
  - Spell Check
  - Styles
  - Tables
  - Tabs
  - Templates
  - Thesaurus
- Page Setup
- MDExchange
  MDExchange is a system and subscriber service for the rapid and secure electronic transmission of communications between medical professionals in MedicalDirector 3.7 and later.
- MedicalDirector Cover
- My Health Record
  Access a patient's My Health Record from a patient's clinical record.
- Correspondence Permissions
- SMS Reminders - About and Registration
- Documents

Create a Letterhead

Before you begin

Procedure

From within Letter Writer, select File > Modify Template. The Modify window appears.
Select Letterhead from the User Defined list. Click Open > to continue.
A blank document appears. The Template Fields toolbar appears to the right of the Letter Writer window, as shown in the following image.
Design your Letterhead on the blank page provided.
SelectFile > Save as Templatefrom the menu bar.
SelectLetterhead > from the list.
Select a User Access option:
- All Users - This becomes the Practice Letterhead and is available to all users. The icon in the template list is marked with ALL, in blue.
- Current User - This becomes the individual User Letterhead and is seen only by the user who created it. The icon in the template list is marked with USER, in violet, as shown in the diagram above.
Click Save or press ENTER to save the Letterhead.

Create a Letterhead

Before you begin

Procedure

Results