Administration
Set up Clinical, manage configuration, user records, updates, back ups and other maintenance.
- Installing MedicalDirector Clinical/Pracsoft for the First Time
- 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.
  - MedicalDirector Automatic Updates
    Automatically download incremental updates for Clinical, Pracsoft, and Bluechip.
  - 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.
  - Maintenance Utilities
    - Database Tasks
    - Clinical Database Tasks
      - Care Plan List Editor
        Use the Care Plan Editor to add, modify or delete the Needs, Goals and Tasks text entries available to you when creating Care Plans.
      - Content Update Utility
        Use the Content Update Utility on your server to display a list of the workstations on your network, and whether they require updating, or on your workstation to check if there are any updates available on the server, and to force an update of the MDref package content to the workstation.
      - Device List
        The Device List provides users with a list of Diagnostic Devices compatible with Clinical.
      - Diagnosis Coder
        Use the Diagnosis Coder to associate free-text entries with supplied DOCLE text entries.
      - Dictionary Manager
        Use the Dictionary Manager to indicate which dictionaries are used for conducting spelling checks in Clinical, as well as managing the global Custom Dictionary.
      - Inactive/Active Patient Wizard
        Mark patients inactive automatically.
      - Link File Processor
      - Mail Merge Utility
        The Mail Merge utility allows you to recover and print failed mail merges again.
      - Managing Communications
        Use the Manage Communications utility to configure how Investigation Results are imported to Clinical.
        Installation
        The Manage Communications utility is installed automatically with Clinical 3.12 or later.
        Configuring Communications
        General Settings
        Setting Up Data Transfer Services
        Configuring Advanced Pathology Settings
      - MedicalDirector Mobility
        MedicalDirector Mobility is a utility for downloading patient records to a mobile computer, allowing you to work with them off-site.
      - Merge Clinical Lists
      - My Health Record
        Clinical is compatible with the My Health Record system, allowing you to view Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) documentation that was created for the patient at another Practice (for example), as well as giving you the means to add your own patient documentation to the System, which can then be accessed by other clinicians.
      - Patient Photos Bulk Import
        Import photos to add to patient records.
      - Pregnancy Restarter
        If you have accidentally recorded the ending of a patient's pregnancy, you can restore the pregnancy record using the Pregnancy Restarter utility.
      - Progress Notes Recovery
        You may be able to recover lost Progress Notes using the Progress Notes Recovery utility.
      - Release Document Locks
        The Release Document Locks utility releases all Clinical document locks, including locks held by active users.
    - Maintenance Tasks
  - Reference Information
- 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.
- 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

Configuring Advanced Pathology Settings

Before you begin

Procedure

Within the Manage Communications utility, select the Advanced Pathology tab.
Click Add (or if you want to edit and existing configuration, select it and click Edit). The Association - Advanced Pathology Details window appears.
Via the Provider drop-down list, select the Provider whose advanced pathology settings you want to configure. If the Provider you want is not listed, it may be that you have already configured their settings (in which case you cannot add them again), or they do not exist in your Clinical Address Book. See Address Book for further information about adding companies to the Address Book.
Choose a Data Transfer Configuration via the associated drop-down list. If you need to create a new Data Transfer Configuration, you must do so first, via Manage Communications > Setup Data Transfer tab.
Configure the remaining settings on this window as determined by your Pathology Service Provider.
- For example, for SDS laboratories, select the SDS Request window - for Sonic laboratories, select 'Sonic'. The most common settings will appear by default. Please consult your Service Provider for advice.
- Do not select the 'SDS (Legacy) Request Window' unless advised by your Pathology provider. as it is there only for use with the supplied Samples database.
Click OK to confirm these settings.

Results