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Appointment Management
Manage appointments at your practice using the appointment book.
Sending Bulk SMS Reminders
The SMS Reminders feature can send SMS messages from MedicalDirector Bluechip to a mobile phone.

Appointment Management
Manage appointments at your practice using the appointment book.
- Appointment Book Overview
  Set up appointments to suit your Practice's requirements.
- Single Appointments
  Create a single appointment from the Appointment Book for new or existing patients.
- Recurring Appointments
  Book recurring appointments from the appointment book, patient explorer or patient record.
- Sending Bulk SMS Reminders
  The SMS Reminders feature can send SMS messages from MedicalDirector Bluechip to a mobile phone.
- Cancelling, Deleting, No Show
- Rescheduling Appointments
- Appointment Comments
- Daily Messages
- Double-Booking Appointments
- Editing Appointments
- Finding Free Appointment Slots
  When recording a new appointment or rescheduling an existing appointment, it may be necessary for you to determine where there is an available appointment slot. The Find Free Appointment Slot module is a convenient way for you to find free appointment slots quickly and easily.
- Printing Appointment Lists
  Print a list of a day's appointments.
- Referrals
  Manage referrals via the Referrals window in the Patient Explorer.
- Theatre Bookings
- Waiting List
  Create and manage a list of patients who are waiting for appointments.
- Bookings
  Use the Bookings window to quickly view the appointments schedule for your patients, without having to search the Appointment Book. You can also use the Bookings window to create new appointments, or to edit, reschedule, cancel or delete appointments between specified dates.
- Original Appointment Book

Sending Bulk SMS Reminders

The SMS Reminders feature can send SMS messages from MedicalDirector Bluechip to a mobile phone.

Before you begin

The message transfer is managed by a third party with whom you must register in order to send SMS messages.

About this task

There are two components to upgrading your SMS registration:

Initialising the new SMS registration from within MedicalDirector Bluechip
Configuring your proxy in order to send scheduled SMS messages

Procedure

Both Single (SMS Selected Patient) or Bulk SMS (Bulk) options are accessed from SMS located in the top right of the Appointment Book. For this example a Bulk SMS will be processed. Click SMS > Bulk.
In the Bulk SMS Wizard, click Next.
In Step 1 of the Bulk SMS Wizard, select the customised Message Template from the drop down list, or create a new SMS Message. Click Next.
In Step 2 of the Bulk SMS Wizard, select a date/time range, practitioners and/or group. This will only include the appointments that meet the criteria that have been selected. Click Next
In Step 3 of the Bulk SMS Wizard displays. Select the Appointment Type(s) required for each practitioner. There must be at least one type selected for each practitioner. Click Next
Step 4 of the Bulk SMS Wizard provides the list of patients that will receive the bulk SMS. Tick Show Excluded Patients to view the patients who are excluded from the list on the basis that they have either opted out of receiving SMS messages or have no mobile phone number recorded.
In Step 5 of the Bulk SMS Wizard, click SMS Credit Check to determine if there are enough credits to send SMS messages to all of the selected patients. After the credit check results come back as successful, click Finish.

Results

Email reminders are sent to the selected patients.