New ABS Button:

The ABS button lets your patients instantly book appointments with you, so we’ve revamped it to precisely communicate this fact.

We need your patients to know that booking appointments with you is only a click away, and the new look of the ABS button on practo.com conveys that.

Flexible Time Slots:

Every doctor has their own way of running their practice, and the tools they use need to reflect this. We are working on accommodating all your needs and on that note, we are introducing customisable time slots on practo.com for your appointments. You can choose the duration of your appointments that your patients see when they book an appointment with you. You can select durations of:

• 15 min
• 20 min
• 30 min
• 1 hr
• 2 hr

Here’s how you can select your appropriate timeslot:

Something that we found while talking to dentists, is that their Treatments are spread out over multiple sittings.

So if you’re carrying out a dental procedure from a Treatment Plan…

..and find yourself needing another sitting to complete it, Practo Ray can now help you organise that. Just deselect the teeth for which treatment is pending, and save the procedure.

A new Treatment plan will be created with the procedure planned for the remaining teeth.

The Procedure that you just completed has the green tick mark next to it, and the pending treatment is below it.

The planned procedure notes remain intact. You can pick up this treatment plan when the patient walks in for the next sitting, and begin where you left off. And if you had specified a discount for the plan, it’ll get equally divided among each sitting.

Tooth wise procedure completion is available only to the ‘Dental’ category of practices.

When you Invoice a Product, you had to manually enter the taxes applicable every time.

With this update, you can now set up the tax applicable on a Product from the Add/Edit Item page in your Inventory.

So the next time you add that product in an Invoice, the tax you specified is automatically selected.

You can also see the Product Retail Price and Applicable Tax in the Inventory list itself.

Check out the detailed How-to article for setting default Taxes.

Changed your mind about an Invoice? No problem!

If you need to cancel an Invoice for a product, you don’t have to worry about manually updating stock levels in your Inventory any more. If you cancel any Invoice that has products, the stock levels will get automatically adjusted by adding the stocks back to Inventory.

We’ve spruced up Treatment Plans and Completed Procedures to make it easier to read for you. We should also mention that it looks way better now, and all the information you need is neatly organised.

Treatment Plans

To make it easier on your eyes, we’ve organised everything in a tabular structure. We’ve packed in all the information you need: From patient details, to Treatment Plan information with the doctor’s name. We’ve also reduced the size of each Treatment Plan entry, which does two things : It makes it easy for you to pick out information, and you don’t have to scroll around the screen as much as you did before.

Completed Procedures

We’ve applied the same principles of making the information as crystal-clear as possible here. We’ve arranged everything so you don’t have to search for anything. You get the benefits of reduced scrolling and increased legibility in this as well. Actually, why don’t you look below and see for yourself?

With this improvement, when a staff user (non doctor/therapist user) adds a completed procedure from procedure catalog the system will automatically select the most recent appointment’s doctor or therapist  as the one who performed the procedure.

Similarly, the most recent appointment’s doctor or therapist is selected as default when a procedure from catalog is added to Invoice

This improvement in default doctor selection can be seen while adding any of the following information:

• Treatment Plan
• Clinical Notes
• Completed Procedure
• Prescription
• Procedures in Invoice
• Products in Invoice (only for Basic & Advanced plan subscribers)

Please note that as an exception to this rule when a Completed Procedure is added from Treatment Plan, the Treatment Plan’s doctor or therapist is selected by default.

To see the complete order of preference for default doctor selections, click here.