Sending an SMS to an individual patient
Within Vision+ you can send a free-text SMS message to an individual patient.
To send an SMS text message:
- Open Consultation Manager and select your patient.
- Either:
- Select SMS Message from the Vision+ drop-down on the floating toolbar:
- From the Windows Notification Area, right click Vision+ and select SMS Message:
- Type your message in the SMS message template screen.
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If the patient has a blank, invalid or has declined SMS messages you see the following prompt:
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If successful the patient sees the following message:
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An appropriate Clinical Term records in the patient's record when a text message is sent via this method:
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The message content is recorded in the comments:
View the following video to see how to send an Ad Hoc Text Message to a patient:
Sending an Ad Hoc Text Message (0:40)