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Administration
Set up Clinical, manage configuration, user records, updates, back ups and other maintenance.
Maintenance
Use update, backup and restore and other maintenance utilities to manage MedicalDirector Clinical.
Backup and Restore
The MedicalDirector Backup and Restore utilities backup and restore Clinical and Pracsoft.
Backup and Restore with the Backup and Restore Utilities
Use Clinical's Backup utility to backup your practice's data.
Scheduling Backups
To schedule backups with the Backup utility, you must have an understanding of the Backups utility and how to perform a standard backup.

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.
  - 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.
    - Backup and Restore with the Backup and Restore Utilities
      Use Clinical's Backup utility to backup your practice's data.
      - Backup with the Backup Utilities
      - Preparing a Command Line Backup
      - Creating a Batch File to Run a Backup
      - Delete Existing Configurations
      - Scheduling Backups
        To schedule backups with the Backup utility, you must have an understanding of the Backups utility and how to perform a standard backup.
        Modifying Scheduled Tasks
      - Restore with the Restore Utilities
    - Backup and Restore with SQL Server Management Studio
    - Backup and Restore MDExchange PKI Certificates
  - 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
  - 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

Scheduling Backups

To schedule backups with the Backup utility, you must have an understanding of the Backups utility and how to perform a standard backup.

Before you begin

Procedure

Double-click Maintenance on your desktop.
In the Maintenance window, select Common > Maintenance Tasks and double-click Backup.
In the HCN Backup window, select the Schedule tab to record times for conducting automated backups.

This tab is available only after deselecting Run Now at the bottom-left of the window.
Click Account to register the schedule to a particular user account, where only the user that created the scheduled task can change or delete the details of that particular scheduled task. The Task Account also allows you to provide login details. The scheduler then logs in using these and allows access to resources based on your access permissions.
Click Scheduler to access Microsoft's Task Scheduler utility. By doing so you will be able to check if and when you have any other tasks scheduled, allowing you to coordinate your HCN Backups around these other tasks. If you find an existing backup task, consider modifying it.
Select from the 'When' options to set the schedule for Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Once-only operation. After you have made a selection you can edit the times/days etc. for each type of schedule.
Click OK to confirm the changes.
A confirmation prompt is displayed, either:
- Lock/encrypt the backup file by entering a password, or
- Tick the No Password check box.
Click Yes to perform the backup.
If you have made any changes to the schedule, you will now be prompted to save the Configuration file.

Results

If you already have a configuration file of the same name, it will be overwritten by the new configuration file. If you want to keep the old configuration file, rename this version.

Once the backup has been successfully performed you will be prompted accordingly.