To enter Patient details:
Click on Patient details in the Main menu and then click on New (or click on the white box attached to the lower right hand corner of the Patient details button to go straight to a new entry form).
Patient types allowed are :
A,B,X,Y.Z - all practice specific eg. basketball / football club / hospital; H - health care card / pensioner; L - litigation; P - private; R - Department of Veteran Affairs; T -Transport Accident Commission; W - Workcover
When you have put in all the details click 'Auto Send account to / Comp body info'. This will enter where the account has to go (Private details are taken from above and Workcover etc taken from the Auto Address code entered. If you enter an auto address code eg. GIO then the address details for GIO from the Auto addresses area will be put into the 'Send account to' area). Click on Save Entry. You will notice the code is made up automatically. Patient codes are made up of:
1st 4 letters of the surname
1st letter of the first name
The Patient code
A number - 1 for the first code and then 2 etc for any potential duplicates
eg. Tom Smith who is a private patient will have the code Smittp1
Tracy Smith entered later, also private will have the code Smittp2
Tim Smith who is Workcover will have the code Smittw1