Editing or Removing Existing Appointment Types
MediRecords has 60 default appointment types that are available for use. Although you cannot create new appointment types, you have the ability to edit or change the active status of these appointment types to suit your practice needs.
Within Settings, click on Appointments.
Within Appointments, click on the practice that you wish to edit the appointment types for. In this tutorial, we will select MediRecords Admin as an example.
Click on Appointment Types.
You will be taken to the Appointment Types screen as shown. This tutorial will now focus on the two functions.
Editing Appointment Types
To edit an existing appointment type, hover your cursor on the type until you see the Edit button as shown. In this example, we will edit the Custom Consultation type.
A small window will pop up with the details of that type. You have the option to change the Icon, Name, Duration, Colour, Active Status, and Community Status.
The Colour will determine what colour the appointment will appear as when viewed from the Appointment Calendar if Colour Palette is selected as Type. This is available via the Practice section.
*NOTE: Completed appointments will always appear as their Status colour. For more information about appointment statuses, please refer to our article here.
*NOTE: Community Status determines whether the appointment type is available for patients to select from the MediRecords Online Appointments or Patient App.
If you change the duration of this appointment type, you will be greeted with a message explaining that this will not impact existing appointments made with that specific type. Click OK to proceed.
In this example, the Custom Consultation type has been edited to the following.
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Click Save when you have finished with the changes, or Cancel to revert the changes back to the previous information.
Removing Appointment Types
While you cannot delete these Appointment Types, you have the option to change their active status. Hover over a type and click Edit.
When the type form shows, uncheck the Active box and click Save.
You will be greeted with the following warning message. Click Yes to proceed or No to cancel.
If you click Yes, the type is now Inactive.
To make a type active again, change the filter to view Inactive appointment types only. Do this by clicking the Filter and select Inactive. Be sure to de-select Active as shown.
Your screen will now show Inactive appointment types only. Hover your cursor on the type you wish to reactivate and click Edit.
Similar to the process before, check the Active box and click Save.
You will be greeted with the following warning message. Click Yes to proceed or No to cancel.
If you click Yes, the type has now been made Active again.
You've completed another MediRecords Tutorial. You should now be able to manage your Appointment Types.
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