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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.
Maintenance Utilities
Database Tasks
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.

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.
  - 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
      - Communication Services
      - Data Integrity Check
      - Database Properties
        You can access information about the Clinical Server computer and the databases that reside on it.
      - HealthLink
        Theoretically, HealthLink functionality in Clinical requires no configuration - simply installing HealthLink's HMS Client software from HealthLink should be sufficient.
      - Importing and Exporting
      - 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.
      - Merged Patients
      - Messenger in Maintenance
        Messenger provides instant messaging between users on your network.
      - Patient Reviver
        Use the Patient Reviver utility to restore patient records that have previously been marked as Deceased or Deleted.
      - Patients Manager
      - Settings Manager
        The Settings Manager allows you to copy a variety of settings for Pracsoft between Users and/or Computers.
    - Clinical Database Tasks
    - 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
  Update the MyMedicare status of your Clinical and Pracsoft patients.
- 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.
- Technical Reference
- Clinical System Requirements
  Minimum requirements for computers on which Clinical is installed.
- 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
- 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

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.

Before you begin

To access the licensing utility, your user logon must have top-level access, or you must have yet to set up a user with top-level access. You may perform this task on any computer if you can log into the MedicalDirector Live Data database (as explained below).

Procedure

To view or edit your licence details:

Locate and double-click MedicalDirector Maintenance on your desktop.
In the MedicalDirector Maintenance window, select Database Tasks > Common.
Double-click Licence Details.
(Optional) If this is the first time you have tried to access the Licence Details during this session of working in MedicalDirector Maintenance, you will be prompted to select a Configuration and enter your Username and Password.
The Licence Details window appears. Initially, this window is displayed empty, as shown below.
From the Product Name list, select the MedicalDirector product you want to view licensing details for.
To edit your Licence details:
1. Enter the Practice ID, the Practice Name and the Licence Key.
2. To check the Licence Product, the Expiry date of the product and the User details, click Validate.
3. Select a product.
4. Click Save.
Repeat Step 6 for each MedicalDirector product you want to register.