New Patient appointment include more fields
When creating an appointment for a new patient, add the following fields: work phone, cell phone, preferred name, occupation, drivers license number, age/birthdate, referral source, insurance, emergency contact, special needs, medical alerts, drug allergies, note field, email address, etc. Would also like to be able to choose billing type and Fee Schedule. Would also like any of these fields not already in the family file to be added.
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Aug 16, 2023
Admin response
Dentrix Users,
We are planning to make improvements to the New Patient workflow in near future and we would love your input. Please send us a quick message at DentrixProductTeam@HenryScheinOne.com so that we can connect!
Guest
Big thank you to all the 974 people who loved this idea and made this new way of inputting patients absolutely suck!
A bigger thank you to Dentrix for making it a mandatory update for everyone who did not need this.
Go back to making the names auto-capitalize. Very helpful when busy and others are too lazy
Have used Dentrix for 25 plus years, please put back to old way to make make a New patient.
The new way forces us to create a file for a patient and errors happen if data over phone not taken correctly and if they don't mention they have other family here, have to merge family and Dentrix does not always merge families easily. And if New Patient does not show up need to remember to delete patient. Loved old way!!!!!
To add an insurance section along with a date of birth for the patient
This request is now obsolete due to new Patient functionality as of update sometime in 2024.
Definitely need to have a "new patient" entered as an actual patient in the system. So much headache not being able to add all of the pertinent information into the patients profile and scan any
documents that are gathered prior to the appointment.
When making a New Patient Appt you should be adding them as a patient, so you can add important information. Such as the insurance. Creating a new patient and having the patient in the system, there should be an alert that a patient matches that information and asking for approval before continuing. This prompts you to search to see if the patient is in fact already a patient before adding a duplication.
in someway prevent duplicate entries.
DOB
Referral
Reason for visit
Cell # (make it searchable as most people don't have home phones)
email
address
date of last dental visit
insurance info
Be able to create family file.
DOB
DOB, pre-med for dental appt. Insurance Name
Any way for Dentrix to detect if the First/Last name & DOB combo is already in the system to decrease duplicate patient entries?
We also have standard questions that we would like to incorporate in the New Patient appointment. Maybe an optional feature each office could choose to use or not.
Do you have any areas of concern? if yes, Location U/L/A L/R
Approximately, when was your last dental visit?
Do you have any allergies?
Do you need to be pre-medicated for your dental appointments?
Do you have any insurance that you would like us to submit for you?
2 patient identifier...... Name and Date Of Birth! Please include DOB entry option.
I would also be nice to have notes visible on the ASAP list for new patients. Since that list is not interactive with anything might as well serve for something useful on new patients.
At the very least, add a field for DOB. And make it searchable. It's sometimes hard to find a new patient appt if the name has been spelled incorrectly.
DOB and note field sound great! Keep email address too.
Preferred name would also be great!
DOB and Gender would be super helpful.
Please please please add date of birth! I cant believe it was never part of the original design, as EVERY SINGLE DOCTOR EVER needs date of birth for all patients.
We would like First/Last Name, DOB, Phone #, Address, Insurance info and add additional family members
DOB!!!! Ins Name-Subscriber Name, Member ID--just add all the things needed to create a family file...