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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 Fields and Field Prompts

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 Fields and Field Prompts

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 fields.

When a user-defined field is saved in a template, and then a letter (based on that template) is created, the user-defined field within it will prompt you for input.
As well as single user-defined field prompts, you can create sets of them. 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. User-defined field prompt sets such as these have other features that are not available to individual field prompts.
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.