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Activities -> Prepare a Label or Activities -> Activities List
Private Practice Software uses Avery L7162 or equivalent A4 Address Label sheets containing 2 x 8 labels or labels supplied with a dedicated label print such as the Dymo LabelWriter400.
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Select the person responsible for the label by clicking <Down Arrow> and selecting the relevant entry.
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If the label is going to be prepared at a later date, select the Due Date and Time. Alternatively you can click <Due In …> next to the time and specify a time period. For example: 1 week, 3 months etc. Your selection here will update the Due Date and Time.
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Optionally select a practitioner associated with the label.
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Select who the label is for. You can select a client in the normal way or select a third party by clicking the radio button and entering the name of the third party in much the same way as selecting the client.
If you selected a client the client address will be displayed and also any associated third-party addresses. For example: Insurance Company, Doctor etc. Click the relevant entry on the left of the label to show the address details.
You can update the address if necessary by typing in the Address Label field.
You can also select that the label is not a client or third party to allow you to enter you own address label.
You can select from a range of standard label templates from the list on the left including your own templates you have created from the PPS Menu Tools - Activity Templates. |
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Enter the subject of the label. This subject will show in the Activities List, Task List and Client Log.
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Enter any other relevant information about the label in the Notes field.
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Choose to include the activity in the Task List and/or when printing out the diary.
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Although you can manually enter an Outcome and Completed details, these are entered automatically when completing the label.
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Click <Print> to open the Label Print Selection screen where you have the choice of either printing the single label now or spooling it to print later.
Print Single Label Now
Double click the relevant label position. The address will appear on the label. Click <Print>
Spool To Print Later
Double click the relevant label position. The address will be added to the label sheet. Click <Print> when you have added all the labels you require. You can also print the label spool later: Activities -> Label Print Spool.
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Activities
Activities in PPS are a way of keeping a record of contacts, telephone calls, letters, etc. that you have with your Clients or Third-Party contacts. Activities can all have a specific PPS User, and Practitioner assigned to them, and can be scheduled for completion in the future or immediately. Activities appear in the Client Log for each client, as well as on the Activities List and the Task List. A System of colours is used to denote activities that are: Due – Green; Not yet due – Orange; Completed – Purple and Overdue (task list only) – Red.
See Also: Activities – Activity Types Address
See: Client - Address Client
Client records are the hub of your PPS database. PPS refers to these records as “Clients” rather than “Patients” because PPS is used across a variety of business and clinical disciplines, some of whom use the term “client” and others use “patient”. A client record can have either minimal details entered, such as first name and surname, or can be a comprehensive range of details including full address/contact details, alternative addresses, DOB, sex, “known as”, full profile details including “source of introduction”, occupation (plus a range of entries you can set up yourself). In addition you can associate a variety of third-parties to clients such as doctors, insurance companies, etc. The more comprehensive the details you store for each client, the greater the opportunities to use these details in your reports and mail-merge operation. For example, by recording the “source of introduction” for each client (such as yellow pages, local advert, recommendation, etc.) you can run almost any report in PPS to show a breakdown by “source of introduction”, for example “practice revenue” by “source of introduction” will show where you earn the most money from – thus where you should concentrate most on your advertising! Company
Company is the “company name” element of a Third Party contact (as opposed to contact name). Third-party Contacts are individuals or organisations that can be associated with clients, for example Insurance Companies. You are able to set up your profile of third-party contacts yourself using the option from the PPS Menu: Tools – Options, and selecting the Client Contacts tab. Each type of contact (there are 9 in total) can be referred to via contact name, and Company name. An example is a Law Firm, where Contact Name would be an individual lawyer or solicitor, and the company would be the law firm. Details
This is a generic term used to describe the information stored in any particular part of PPS. For example Main Client Details is the information you enter to this screen. In addition, there are several “notes” type fields that allow you to enter further “free text” details against a record – these are also sometimes referred to as Details. Diary
See: Appointments Diary Include
This is a term used in the PPS Reports Wizard – on step 3 of the selections for your report. On most reports you can select to “include” a selection of details on the printed report. You can un-tick any items that you do not want to include. The “Include” options only apply when the report is printed or previewed – if you are exporting the report to a file or mail merge, then the “include” options do not apply. Labels
Labels in PPS are Address labels that you can print and use on envelopes if you do not use window envelopes. Labels are an activity type. When you prepare a label, it can either be printed now or later. PPS Prints to either a dedicated label printer such as the DYMO LabelWriter™ or standard A4 label sheet layout which is 2 across by 8 down. The Avery™ label code for this style of label sheet is L7162. PPS has a label print spool that can be used to print a whole A4 sheet of labels at once, by accumulating individual labels gradually until a whole page is full. Alternatively you can also print a single label on an A4 sheet in any position, so you can run a single A4 sheet through your printer several times printing one or two labels in selected positions each time. To prepare a single label to print now or later, select from the PPS Menu: Activities – Prepare a Label. You can also print many labels at once by selecting “Labels” as the output from a PPS Report. To do this, select from the PPS Menu: Reports – PPS Reports & Mail Merge, then select a suitable report that will produce a list of client names and addresses to prepare labels for such as Client Lists. Run the report through the Report Wizard, and in the report output options select Main Merge. Then on the Mail Merge output screen select Labels. You can also print appointment details on a label when booking a new appointment. List
List is the term used to describe information that either appears on the screen or on a report in rows and columns. The term List is also used in PPS as a list of items such as menu, or list of entries such as a look up table. See also: List style diary. Log
See: Client Log. Notes
See: Client - Default Notes Entry Open
Some screens in PPS have an “Open” button on the toolbar, this is very similar to the Modify button as it will “open” the selected record for “modification”. Outcome
When completing a Treatment Episode as part of your clinical notes records, you can enter Outcome details. This can be useful for reporting purposes to help analyse the type of problems you are treating. The Outcome will normally describe the clinical outcome to your treatment and will be an entry such as: “Maintenance Achieved”, or “Problem resolved”. There is a “Outcome Codes” table where you can set up your standard list of Outcome entries. To set up this table, select from the PPS Menu: Tools – Look Up Tables, and select the Outcome table from the Clinical Notes section. To make an Outcome entry as part of your clinical notes, from the PPS Consultation screen either use the <Update> button towards the top of the screen – this updates the Treatment Episode details for this consultation, or when completing the consultation enter the Outcome details in the Treatment Episode details screen (can be accessed using the <More> button in section 1) of the Consultation Complete screen. The Outcome can be selected as a Breakdown option on many reports – especially clinical notes type reports. PPS
PPS is the acronym for “Private Practice Software”. Practitioner
A practitioner in PPS is a system user. To add a practitioner to PPS, you need to add a new system user, and indicate that they are a practitioner as part of their user details. When a user is a practitioner, they appear on the list of practitioners to select to allocate to most PPS records. PPS allocates a practitioner to most types of records so that you can see which practitioner is responsible for that record, also you can break down most report in PPS by practitioner. PrintYou can print various types of information in PPS including client details, clinical notes, Invoices, letters, and a wide variety of reports. All printing in PPS is done using your standard Windows printer driver for your selected printer. Many screens in PPS have a <Print> button that is used to print details for that part of the system. See also: Reports – Report Output. Printing
See: Print Private
See: Clinical Notes – Public/Private; Custom Forms – Public Private Select
A term used when you choose something on the screen. Some PPS screens have a <Select> button, this normally means that you pick an option, or entry in a list, then click the <Select> button. This will “select” your chosen entry and proceed to the next screen, or return to the previous screen with your chosen entry selected. Time
See: Activities – Time; Appointments – Time Week
See: Appointments Diary – Setting Up
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