Restricting moving patient to Operatory before marking "ready for treatment" (or equivalent) in Open Dental
Some of you using Practice Pulse noticed that your front desk team is marking patient arrived, but sometimes forget to mark patient "ready to go back" or its equivalent.
You told us the following concerns with this:
The rest of the team in the back doesn't know when the patient is ready for treatment and ready for the assistant to bring back to operatory The reporting in Practice pulse for this patient will not show correct numbers. If a patient isn't marked ready in Open Dental, there's no way to know when the began actually began treatment.
These numbers are important in calculating wait times in the waiting area, which we show per patient and draw attention to wait times that are above the "threshold"
What we implemented:
Teamio will now enforce marking the patient ready by restricting moving a patient to an operatory if a patient isn't marked "ready for treatment" (or equivalent) status in Open Dental first.
Below is the image you see when a team member tries to move a patient to an operatory before marking patient ready for treatment:
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