General preference

You can change general preference settings.

To set up the preferences

1.   From the Utilities menu, click Preferences.

The Preferences dialog box appears.

2.   On the Operation tab, under General Operations, set up the following options:

·        Verify before saving preferences - Select this check box if you want to a message to appear and ask you to verify that you want to save any changes made in the preferences each time you click Ok in the Preferences dialog box.

·        Update Med. Hx. every __ months - Prompts you to update the patient's medical history at the specified frequency.

·        Update Fin. Policy every __ months - Prompts you to update the patient's financial policy at the specified frequency.

·        Update Priv. Consent every __ months - Prompts you to update the patient's privacy consent information at the specified frequency.

·        Use Help Tips - With this option selected, brief explanations of some data fields and other Help tips appear when your mouse pointer hovers over those objects.

·        Default provider to no value? - With this option selected, the default value for all providers is set to 0.

·        Perform CapFirst Conversions? - Select this check box to automatically convert patient names and addresses you enter to start with a capital letter. Clear this check box if you want to enter information in all upper case letters (with Caps Lock activated on your keyboard).

·        Show Stats. on Daily Summary - Select this check box to display a practice summary at the bottom of the Daily Summary when running a day sheet.

·        Show UCR on ledger, treatment plans - Select this check box to display the UCR fees associated with procedures.

·        Suppress hygienists - Select this check box not to have hygienists' names show in lists where providers can be selected.

·        Display Patient Age on Patient Search - Select this check box if you want to have an Age column available in the Patient Lookup dialog box.

·        Only update statistics daily - Select this check box to have transaction statistics updated only during the User 1 Update, which occurs each morning. With this check box cleared, statistics are updated after each transaction is posted.

·        Enable Inactive Patient Reason - With this option selected, you can specify and edit reasons why the patient is inactive. You can also select which reasons to include in the Inactive Patient Report.

·        Windows RAM refresh every (number of) mins - Enter the number of minutes after which the program will force the computer's memory, also known as RAM, to refresh. The default value of 0 should be sufficient for most offices because Windows can manage items that reside in memory well enough for programs to run without problems.

·        Show Today's Reminder's every [number of] mins. - Enter the desired number of minutes the program will wait before displaying the Tickler System Alarms...Please respond dialog box. Set the value to zero to turn off this feature. This is a global setting (it affects all computers at all locations).

·        Filter reminders by

·        All - Select this option to view the reminders for every location, workstation, and user.

·        Location - Select this option to view the reminders that correspond to the location that you are currently logged in to.

·        Workstations - Select this option to view the reminders that correspond to the computer that you are currently using.

·        User - Select this option to view the reminders that correspond to the user account that you are currently using to log in.

3.   Click Ok.

 

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