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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.
Fields, Data, and the Data Toolbar
User-Defined Field Prompt Sets

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.
- 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

User-Defined Field Prompt Sets

Generally, Letter Writer Fields are based on data taken from the patient and user databases, or ancillary information like today's date for example. When you have exhausted the range of fields available from the Data Toolbar, you can create your own customised or 'user-defined' fields.

When such user-defined fields are added to a template and then a letter based on that template is created, any user-defined fields within it will prompt you for input. You can also create a user-defined field prompt set. A set of user-defined field prompts appears a questionnaire window; you complete the questionnaire, after which the information you entered is added to the letter. Prompt sets include features that are not available to individual user-defined fields, such as:

You can indicate that each field within the set of prompts is compulsory.
You can add notes to the set of prompts to inform users of what information is required for each field.
After responding to a set of prompts, the data you enter appears within a table in the letter.
Note:
user-defined fields have an association with the template in which they are created, and are not available to other templates. In other words, although you might create a user-defined field that shares its name with that from another template, the two fields are considered separate entities.