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Set up Clinical, manage configuration, user records, updates, back ups and other maintenance.
Patient Database Clean-up Tips
If your practice has just migrated to MedicalDirector Clinical or you have merged patient databases you should clean up your patient database.
Review Patient-Specific Data
Review your practice's patient data so you can identify and remove redundant or outdated data after migrating to MedicalDirector or merging patient databases.

Administration
Set up Clinical, manage configuration, user records, updates, back ups and other maintenance.
- Installing or Modifying Clinical
  Install Clinical and its related components using the MedicalDirector Installation Wizard.
- Installing Clinical, Pracsoft, and MDref Updates Automatically
- Adding your Licence Details
  After installing Clinical, or if you renew your Service-Level Agreement (SLA) with MedicalDirector, you will be required to enter your licence details.
- Maintenance
  Use update, backup and restore and other maintenance utilities to manage MedicalDirector Clinical.
- Managing Practitioner and User Records
  Each user must be defined in MedicalDirector Clinical's user database.
- Custom 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
- Medicare Healthcare Identifier Service
  The Healthcare Identifier Service (HI Service) uniquely identifies healthcare providers and individuals who seek healthcare.
- HESA PKI Certificates
- Technical Reference
- Clinical System Requirements
  This information applies to MedicalDirector Clinical 4.3.
- Moving Data to a New Server
  Move your MedicalDirector Clinical data to a new server and configure the workstations.
- Auditing User Access with MDTrace Log
- Modifying Current Installations
- Merge Duplicate Doctor Records
- Patient Database Clean-up Tips
  If your practice has just migrated to MedicalDirector Clinical or you have merged patient databases you should clean up your patient database.
  - Review Patient-Specific Data
    Review your practice's patient data so you can identify and remove redundant or outdated data after migrating to MedicalDirector or merging patient databases.
  - Review Practice-Wide Data
    Review your practice's data so you can identify and remove redundant or outdated data.
- Upgrading MedicalDirector Clinical
- Business Transition Guide
  Relocating your Practice or making significant changes to your Business practices can be challenging enough without adding complications from the software your business uses.
- FTP and MedicalDirector
- IP and Host Name Resolution Requirements for MedicalDirector Communication Services
- Setting Folder Permissions

Review Patient-Specific Data

Review your practice's patient data so you can identify and remove redundant or outdated data after migrating to MedicalDirector or merging patient databases.

Current Rx

Remove old medications that have lapsed or are no longer being taken.

Red: Overdue
Delete or cease the medication
Blue: Almost due
Either:
- Represcribe the medication
- Cease the medication
If the patient has no current medications, set Not taking any medications.

Past History

The Past History tab displays a summary of the patient's medical history.

Remove any non-clinically significant items, such as URTI.
Alternatively, adjust the active status of a condition.
Remove duplicate entries.
If no past history is known, set No significant past history.
Set Confidential to prevent this item from being included in summaries. This does not prevent other practitioners from viewing this information in the patient's record. If you export the patient's record, the confidential information will be included in the exported data.
Set Summary if you want this history item to be included in patient Summaries (printouts).

Allergies

Record any Allergies / Adverse Reactions, including the nature of the reaction, and its severity.
If there are no known allergies/adverse reactions,set No Known Allergies / Adverse Reactions.

Recalls/Reminders

Review the patient's current recall list.
Remove any recalls that have been completed, or choose to update to extend the recall.

Outstanding Actions (Clinical)

Review the patient's actions (to-do list), and click Mark as performed for any complete actions.

Correspondence

Note any recent correspondence.
Identify any clinically-significant correspondence that has been flagged as discuss or return urgently.
Flag the correspondence as notified to identify that the patient has been informed of the result.