PW Dental has support for unlimited operatories
and unlimited providers. Although you can only view about
6 or 7 operatories at one time due to space limitations,
you can set up different Views. Each view can have any
combination of operatories and providers, and will not
display the others. So you can have one view for your
hygeine rooms, one view for each doctor, or any number
of other creative combinations. To switch between the
different views, you would normally use one of the twelve
function keys at the top of your keyboard. You can also
select a view from the drop down list on the right hand
side below the calendar and pinboard. You can see that
an entire ten hour day fits on the screen.
The grayed-out appoinments at the beginning
of the day above have been marked complete (colors are
customizable), and the appointment with the X across it
is a broken appointment that is waiting to be handled.
The operatory names can be as descriptive as you want
and can be rearranged at any time in the definitions or
in views. Each procedure gets its own line in the appointment,
so the appointment does not have to be very wide to show
all the procedures.
Also shown are five providers. Each provider
gets a bar to the left of the appointments section that
shows that provider's time. Each provider is a different
color. The colors can be changed and the order of the
time bars set in the provider setup or in views. In the
Appointments module, hovering over the colored square
directly above each provider's time bar will display the
name of the provider. In the example above, the practice
is open where the background is white, and closed where
it is gray, although the colors are completely cusomizable
in definitions.
The scroll bar to the right allows you to
move up and down throughout the entire 24hr day. The scrollbar
has infinite scrolling, making it very smooth and efficient.
To quickly move to a different day, you can use the calendar
or the navigation buttons just below the calendar. In
the calendar, you can click on any day to go to that day
in the appointment book. The day showing in the appointment
book is represented by the gray square, whereas the red
outline represents the current date. To go to a different
month, use the buttons at the top of the month calendar.
The most common button to use is the Today button, just
below the calendar. The buttons on either side will navigate
forward and backward one day at a time. The Week button
below takes you to the current week, but does not change
the day of the week displayed. The buttons to either side
will navigate one week at a time. The pinboard to the
right is for moving appointments between days. Simply
drag the appoinment onto the pinboard, select a different
day, and drag it back off.
The notes sections at the lower right shows
notes from various areas of PW Dental for the currently
selected patient. Just above that are the action buttons
for working with the currently selected appointment.
The horizontal red line indicates the current
time. It automatically moves down every minute and lets
you visualize the time to within a minute or two.
The small letters in the upper left corner
of each appointment refer to credit type: A, B, or C,
or you can use whatever letters your office prefers. An
"I" also shows if the patient has insurance.
Every appointment has a second optional provider for hygeine
so that only one appointment has to be made even if a
patient is technically seeing two providers. Appointments
are edited by double clicking on them.
The four toolbar buttons (upper right) are
for "Select Patient", "Unscheduled List",
"Recall List", and "Print". The print
button will print the day being viewed and allow you to
select the number of copies. When it prints, it automatically
prints showing the hours that the practice is open. These
schedules can be posted throughout the office in areas
where you do not have monitors.