What a visit holds
A visit is the clinical record of one appointment. Findings, the procedures performed, anything prescribed, and anything ordered all attach to it.
Because the visit is the unit, the patient history reads as a sequence of encounters rather than an undifferentiated pile of notes.
The dental chart
Observations can be recorded against individual teeth, so a finding is tied to the tooth it concerns rather than described in a sentence.
That structure is what lets a later visit show what was already noted where, without rereading every previous note.
Printing a visit summary
A visit can be printed as an A4 summary for the patient or for the clinic’s own file.
It is generated from the recorded visit, so what prints is what was entered rather than a separately maintained document.
Common questions
- Can I edit a visit after it is finished?
- Visits remain part of the patient record and clinical activity is audited. Treat the record as a clinical document rather than a scratchpad.
- Do procedures recorded on a visit reach the bill?
- Procedures are recorded clinically, and invoicing is done from the billing screen so that what is charged is always a deliberate act.