Patient Groups and Recalls

The Patient Groups module allows you to merge and modify groups of patients created and saved from the Search and Reports, Clinical Audit and Registration modules. You can also generate recalls, producing individualised recall letters with names and addresses, for example, all patients due for cervical smear recall in the near future.

Generate History is an option that allows you to add a Read coded history entry to a group of patients in bulk.

From Group Maintenance, groups saved from searches can be processed. The patients in a group can be viewed and individual patients added or removed. Groups can be merged together, eliminating or including patients common or specific to a group. For example, a group of smokers can be merged with a group of those with high blood pressure, and the resulting group consist of smokers with high BP.

You can mail merge a group from Patient Groups. Templates of standard recall letters are first created within a word processing package of either Vision Editor or Microsoft from Modules - Word Processor on the Vision Front menu (see Template Letters set up in Word Processor. Mail merge fields from details of the practice, patient, recall or referral are incorporated into the templates, for example, {System Date} for the current date, or {Surname} for the patient's surname. The recall process involves selecting a group of patients, Generate Recalls, and the template letter, and then printing the letters. The individual details are merged into each letter.

Address labels can be printed for patient recall letters, either individually or as a group. A variety of dot matrix and laser label sizes can be printed.