Practice Partner Releases Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler for Windows

08/03/1999 Seattle, WA - Practice Partner announces the release of the Windows version of Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler . With the introduction of Appointment Scheduler for Windows, Practice Partner continues to expand the capabilities of the Practice Partner product line. The Practice Partner suite of products, which also includes Patient Records and Medical Billing , offers a complete clinical and administrative medical office solution.

First introduced in 1985, Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler provides all of the features needed to efficiently schedule the modern medical office. The Windows version is available in two variations, one for practices with a single office and one designed for multi-clinic practices. With its intuitive ease of use, powerful feature set, and scaleable design, Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler for Windows is the perfect scheduling solution for any size medical practice.

Appointment Scheduler for Windows' intuitive graphical user interface helps optimize its ease of use. The Windows platform allows Appointment Scheduler to look like the traditional paper appointment book while retaining all of the power associated with the computer application. Easy point & click scheduling, intelligent color highlighting for double-booked time slots, graphical calendars, and true cutting and pasting of complete appointments are just a few of the features that take advantage of traditional Windows conventions.

Appointment Scheduler For Windows introduces a host of sophisticated new features that combine to bring schedulers, providers, and management the tools and information they need to maximize the increasingly complex scheduling function in the ambulatory office. The features include the following:

• Enhanced Patient Screen: When scheduling appointments, staff can readily define a broad category of critical items, including visit type, reason for visit, and rooms and resources needed, as well as viewing past and future appointments - all from a single screen.
• Patients In: Patients In offers a workflow view. It can show the status of any group of patients in the clinic, selected by provider or clinic. At a glance you can see whether patients have checked in and if they are in an exam room, with a provider, in the lab, or in the x-ray facilities.
• Providers In: The schedules for all providers that are in on a particular day at a particular clinic can be displayed at once. This is extremely useful for staff scheduling a team of providers.
• Multiple Views of Provider Schedules: Appointment Scheduler includes a complete set of views, incorporating a Day, Week, and Month view, along with views for Dual Providers and Groups of Providers.
• Management Tools: Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler has the ability to create a broad range of reports utilizing the scheduling data. These comprehensive reports allow you to understand and manage your practice more efficiently. And with the ability to time-stamp all of the various stages of the visit, powerful reports regarding time management can easily be created.
• Enhanced Integration with Practice Partner Medical Billing and Patient Records: Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler is fully integrated with Practice Partner Patient Records and Medical Billing . This allows schedulers to remind patients of their overdue health maintenance items, and also allows full access to the patient's current insurance and account balances - all viewable on the same screen used to make appointments.
• Wait List Scheduling: The new Wait List gives patients the option to have their names placed on a waiting list if their provider's schedule is full. This provides office staff with an easy call-back mechanism if a scheduled patient cancels.

"We are extremely excited to offer the Windows version of Appointment Scheduler to our customers," says Practice Partner President Andrew Ury, MD. "It is our goal to provide clinics with the most efficient and comprehensive set of administrative and clinical products. Appointment Scheduler For Windows continues this tradition."

Seattle-based Practice Partner is a leader in the development and marketing of innovative Electronic Medical Records and Practice Management products for medical offices and large health care enterprises. Practice Partner, founded in 1983 by Dr. Andrew Ury to provide comprehensive software solutions for office-based physicians, is one of the pioneers in electronic medical records software. More than 1200 offices use Practice Partner software, and more than 700 of them use Practice Partner Patient Records. With over a decade of experience with the EMR (Practice Partner released its first version of Practice Partner Patient Records in 1987), Practice Partner has created software products that are finely honed to the real world needs of physicians, nurses, and office professionals.