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I'm looking for help with scheduling midmorning and mid afternoon recurring breaks for the docs. The answer I got from AC is to schedule each individual block day by day. Since there are four providers, that is prohibitive. Is there any way around it?

What do you mean ?

Is each day different ?

Give us idea of schedule.

OK. Providers all take lunch 12-1, so that break is entered when the schedules are set up. Then they want 10 or 20 minute breaks mid morning or mid afternoon. For Doctor A, that is 10 minutes at 9:50, 20 minutes at 11:00, 10 minutes at 2:50 and 20 minutes at 4:00 Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Wednesdays there are no blocks. Thursdays, the morning blocks are the same and then he just ends earlier (already set up the early ending in the Admin). I have been told I would have to enter each individual break, day by day, provider by provider. You can see why I think that is prohibitive! Not only that, but the "Block schedule" function under Admin only gives me 15 minute increments, not the 10 minute increments which are set up for Dr. A, so I can't use Admin to set the blocks. I did create a patient named Block Block and visit types Block 10 and Block 20. But Mr. Block Block still has to be scheduled for each individual "appointment". Have you discovered any way to streamline the process of setting recurring blocks or breaks? Alternate question: Has anyone continued to use their existing Practice Management software scheduler instead of the scheduler in Amazing Charts? We have Medisoft 14; the scheduler is much more versatile than AC's. If that can be done, how does one do it?

You can change the schedule to 10 minute intervals. BTW, this has to be changed on each individual machine. That will allow you to do 10 and 20 minute breaks.

But then do they actually take 10? Why not keep 15 minute slots and just give a 15, in reality 2-3 minutes ramp up and down on a 10 minute break will be 15.

Each provider's schedule can be set up how you like... each break can be programmed in the administrave section for scheduling.
You would choose the years you are altering the schedule, choose the hours for that provider: now for common hours, and standar office closing, you can do that without choosing a provider.
If I am not mistaken, this should solve the issue.

We are still using are PM software for scheduling and billing. The scheduling in AC is limited and we didn't like how you had to schedule new patients. It was too complicated. Much easier using are PM software. However, we will be interfacing the two programs soon so I am not sure how this will affect/change how we are currently doing things. I have come to the conclusion that AC was not created for its scheduling feature and go with what works best for us.

Also, as for the break time we don't work any breaks in the provider's schedules. They take breaks in between patients and when they can if they take them at all. There is usually time between patients to get a break if necessary. I would just do the 15 minute break if you really needed to since 10 minute wasn't an option. If they come back early that just puts you 5 minutes a head for the day.

Good Luck!

WE still use our PM scheduler(Lytec) and use Xlink to crossover the info into AC. This works well but still a few bugs to work on...When we shift F12 X link brings all the info in including the "reason" in lytec and since this field is blank it seems to overwrite any comment info we have entered in AC such as "wating,Being Seen etc" otherwise seems to be working fine.

Searun,

Could you tell me more about how you use Xlink to crossover the data from your PM to AC. I'm not well versed on Xlink, but I thought that was a way to get unix based systems and windows systems to share info. Am I wrong or Have I not kept up? How are you doing this.

Does anyone now how long it takes to sweep info from lytec to amazing charts via xlink. When we put in new patients into lytec. I would like to transfer the data immediately over to AC but the data takes awhile but not sure how long it takes. It a pain when you want to take a patient back immediately and start charting immediately.