Hi gang,
What we need is a way to tag the DATE a patient became inactive as well, as when you analyze their statistics, if they WERE active THEN, then they shouldn't be skipped.
In my practice we limit the fake patients to three, an adult male, and adult female and a kid. We do NOT add patients to Amazing Charts until they walk in the door, fill out new patient paperwork and are accepted as patients. I realize this solution won't help those who already have a zillion never-established or never-showed's, but is how we've chosen to deal with it for now.
At my last meeting with Jon we discussed this problem, and there may be a much better way of classifying these people coming in the future, as this is a major problem for a lot of people. If we had a better way of classifying the "Do Not Book" list, and those who have left that are either invited back or not invited back (which I guess would put 'em on the Do Not Book" list), as well as active patients.
V.
