• When the patient arrives for their appointment, right-click on the appointment and select Attendance Registration. 
  
  

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• Select the arrival status and enter the time the patient arrived for their appointment.

these values default to the current time and ‘Arrived’

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• Arrival status and time is displayed on the appointment diary.

• A * appears in front of the patient name as a visual indicator that the patient has arrived for her appointment.

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• Clinical staff can then view the appointment diary to see which patients have arrived for their appointments. 

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Patient tracking

For information on location tracking, and using the ‘left reception’ and ‘left clinic’ options see this page - IDS2802 Patient location tracking

Encounter templates and procedures associated with appointments

You can associate an Encounter template with an appointment procedure.

You can also configure the appointment to ensure that, when the patient is marked as arrived in the appointment diary , and encounter template is automatically generate (note that an invoice is not automatically generated.

For more help with this, see this page Config. - Encounter templates & billing items | [hardBreak]Automatic creation of encounter when patient arrives and discuss with your mellowood contact