Appointment Status Types

The Family Health Team uses the icons to indicate the current status of an appointment. These functions are available when you right click on the scheduled appointment.

 

1.    Right click on the appointment to observe the different icons used to identify the status of an appointment.

 

2.    Select the patient’s appropriate appointment status from the menu (see Appointment Status Types chart below).


 

Appointment Status Types

Status

Description

Icon

Arrived

Patient has arrived at clinic

In Room

Patient is with nursing

Ready

Patient is with scheduled provider

Finished

Patient has left the clinic

Activated in EPR

Reception has activated the visit in EPR for ordering

No Show

Black dashes through patient’s name

LWBS

Left without being seen: green dashes through patient’s name

 



·         It is important for physicians to mark if the patient was No Show or LWBS because of billing procedures

·         The Right Click menu allows you to change a status such as reversing a No Show or LWBS