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Set up Clinical, manage configuration, user records, updates, back ups and other maintenance.
Managing Practitioner and User Records
Passwords, Permissions and Security
Password Security Settings

Administration
Set up Clinical, manage configuration, user records, updates, back ups and other maintenance.
- MedicalDirector Automatic Updates
- System Configurations
  Manage database configurations.
- Managing Practitioner and User Records
  - 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.
  - Passwords, Permissions and Security
  - Printing User Details
  - OneNil
  - Moving Sensitive Data
    If you move sensitive patient information onto removable media such as a USB, thumb or flash drive, external hard drive, or CD/DVD, you must ensure your patient’s sensitive information is best protected in the event the data is lost or stolen.
- Merge Clinical Lists
- 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
- Managing Communications
  Use the Manage Communications utility to configure how Investigation Results are imported to Clinical.
- Medicare Healthcare Identifiers Service
- Medicare's Health Identifier Service and Clinical
- HESA PKI Certificates
- Backup and Restore
  The MedicalDirector Backup and Restore utilities backup and restore Clinical and Pracsoft.
- MedicalDirector Mobility
  MedicalDirector Mobility is a utility for downloading patient records to a mobile computer, allowing you to work with them off-site.
- Technical Reference
- Language Codes Reference
  Instances of 'nec' found following refer to "Not Elsewhere Classified".
- Clinical System Requirements
  This information applies to MedicalDirector Clinical 4.3.

Password Security Settings

Before you begin

The following password security settings are global, shared between MedicalDirector Clinical and Pracsoft users.

Procedure

Select User > Password Security Settings from the main menu. The Password Policy window is displayed.
Configure the Password Policy using the following settings:
- Password Compositions: Indicate which composition requirements are to be met.
- Minimum Password Length: 6
- Maximum Password Length: 20
- Login Retry Limit: Indicate the number of logon attempts each user is permitted.
- Reuse Past Password Restriction: Indicate the number of times a user can reuse a previous password.
- Expiry Days: Indicate the duration (in days) a password remains active until it must be changed. For example, enter '365' if you would like users to change their password once a year, or enter '180' for every 6 months. We recommend you change passwords every 3 months (the default 90 days).
Click OK to confirm the Policy.

Password Security Settings

Before you begin

Procedure

Results