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Administration
Set up Clinical, manage configuration, user records, updates, back ups and other maintenance.
Managing Practitioner and User Records
Each user must be defined in MedicalDirector Clinical's user database.
User Database
The User Database is where practitioners and users can be added, edited and deleted, and access levels and restrictions can be defined as appropriate.
Adding, Editing, and Deleting Practitioners and Nurse Practitioners
Adding Practitioner Records

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.
  - User Database
    The User Database is where practitioners and users can be added, edited and deleted, and access levels and restrictions can be defined as appropriate.
    - Adding, Editing, and Deleting Practitioners and Nurse Practitioners
    - Adding, Editing, and Deleting Users
  - Passwords, Permissions and Security
  - Printing User Details
  - OneNil
  - Moving Sensitive Data
    You must take steps to protect sensitive patient data from misuse, interference, loss or unauthorised access or disclosure.
- 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

Adding Practitioner Records

Before you begin

Procedure

Ensure you have opened the User Database.
Click Add Doctor or Add Nurse Practitioner. If there is no Add Doctor button present, please refer to Multi-User Licensing. The Add Doctor/Nurse Practitioner window appears.
Enter your details.
- All details marked with a red asterisk must be completed;
  - The recording of a Doctor's/Nurse Practitioner's name, address, prescriber number, provider number and qualifications is a legal requirement, as these details appear on prescriptions. The Provider Number is required as it is used on Pathology/Radiology forms and added to referral letters.
  - Indicate the doctor's location.
- See Healthcare Identifiers Service for information on the HPI-I number.
- The AHPRA Registration/State Registration No. fields are optional. For more information please contact the Department of Health and Ageing in your state.
- If you wish to participate in My Health Record, tick the Participate in MyHealthRecordcheck box and enter your details as you wish them to appear within the My Health Record system.
Optional:
- ePrescribing is enabled by default, and requires that you have registered for MDExchange to function.
- Real Time Prescription Monitoring.
- Electronic_Prescribing.
- Auto-Capitalise Name automatically capitalises the first letter of each word the user types. Many windows throughout Clinical that offer this functionality, including the Options tabs. Auto-Capitalise Name determines the default setting for all others.
- PKI Encryption enables the encrypting of e-mail correspondence sent from Letter Writer using HESA PKI Certificate encryption technology.
Click OK to add the new user to the database,.and create a password. See Setting and Changing Your Password.
Click Save to confirm.

What to do next

Consider configuring the user's permissions.

If you created a new Nurse Practitioner and you run Pracsoft in conjunction with Clinical, you will now need to open Pracsoft and add the Nurse Practitioner to Pracsoft.