Send SMS Reminders to a single recipient.
Procedure
To send a message via SMS Reminders to a single recipient:
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Do one of the following;
- From the Bluechip main screen select
- Select an appointment in the Appointment Book, and click SMS
- Right-click an appointment and select Send SMS from the menu.
- In the Patient Details window of a patient's record, click F3 - SMS
Message.
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In the SMS Message window, create your SMS Message by
either:
- Selecting which message template you want to base this SMS on. Message
templates are created via SMS
Messages Setup, or
- Creating a new message by editing the content within the SMS Message
window.
By right-clicking in the message body, you can access a menu of
merge fields that you can then insert into your message at the insertion
point. These merge fields act as place holders for information, and will be
replaced automatically when you send the message.
For example, if you
enter the merge field [PatName], this will insert the
name of the patient for whom you are creating the message. See SMS Reminders (Merge Fields) for more
information.
Note: you must click where you want to place the
merge field, before right-clicking and selecting it, to ensure that the
field is inserted in the correct place.
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Enter the mobile phone number to which you want to send the message.
If an ad-hoc message is being created from a patient's details or the Appointment Book, you cannot edit the mobile phone number, as it is sourced from the patient's record.
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Click Send when you are ready to send your message.
Click the 
Preview button at the top left of the SMS Reminders Setup
window to preview your standard message.
Click the 
Revert button to revert the text you entered to the default
SMS Reminders message, which is "[PatGiven], you have an appointment with
[PractName]".
Results
The SMS message is sent to the selected patient.
