Customizing continuing care statuses

Continuing care status indicates the last contact with a patient regarding his or her next continuing care visit.

Note: You can change, delete, or add continuing care statuses, if needed; however, you are limited to a total of ten statuses.

To customize a continuing care status

1.   From the Maintenance menu in the Office Manager, point to Practice Setup, and then click Definitions.

The Practice Definitions dialog box appears.

2.   From the Definition Type list, select Continuing Care Status.

The current list of continuing care statuses appears.

3.   Do one of the following:

·        To add a continuing care status, type an abbreviation and a description, and then click Add.

·        To change a continuing care status, select the status that you want to change, replace the abbreviation and description with new ones, and then click Change. To learn more, click Changing a practice definition.

·        To delete the selected continuing care status, click Delete. To learn more, click Deleting a practice definition.