Adding an Encounter

To add an Encounter:

Important - A patient record is not locked when you open an Encounter, other users can access and add to the same patient record at the same time.

From Vision Anywhere, open a patient record, see Selecting a Patient for details.
From the Patient Summary screen, select New encounter and the Current Encounter screen displays:
Select an encounter type from the list available, the default is Surgery consultation note:
Select the date and time to update if required:
You can now record your consultation, see Adding Clinical Data for details.
Select Close this Encounter to finish and send the details back to the patient record.

See Why Should I Close Encounters? for details.

Recording a Consultation (2.03)

Note - To print this topic select Print

in the top right corner and follow the on-screen prompts.