Topics Patient Message Search:  
It is likely that the Patient has called the front office to report his health status as advised by the Doctor, or to ask for a Refill. The front office would like to immediately send a message to the Doctor and by exception (as in case of Health Status Reporting) add it to the Patient Medical Records. All this is feasible by entering the details in this pop up.

To: Select the type of person to communicate with from the List Box.
Type: Message Type is set to Telephonic by default.
          
Name Search Button: Click on this button to choose one or more persons of the selected type. The names selected will be displayed. The User does not need to remember the persons Id, or email address.

Reference Patient:
If this box is invoked from Appointment shedule pop up, the selected Patient is shown here by default. In other cases, this field is set by default to the current encounter session. If there is no current encounter selected, the Patient name will be blank. In either case the user can click on the search button or type in to select an alternate Patient.

Action: Select the required action from the list box. Actions can be defined under the Settings > Configuration > GroupTypes option.

Due in Days: Enter number of days when a Response is expected.

Subject: Subject is Mandatory.

Message: Multi line edit Control for message.

Inform when Done: If this is checked the message will remain open (pending action) until the receiver of the message acknowledges and closes the action.

Add to Patient Medical Records Check Box: This may be checked if the message needs to be added to Patient Medical Records.

reply Button: Click on button when user sent ‘Reply' to the message. It is identifiable by the indication icon provided.

forward Button: Click on button to forward the message. It is identifiable by the indication icon provided.

ok Button: Sends the message.