Visual Practice HOW TO

...Perform HCV for a day's patient bookings

The Booking/Scheduling module can be used to prevalidate patient health cards and version codes when used in combination with an HCV license.  In order to do this, you must first have the necessary licenses and user privileges to access the Booking/Scheduling module.  If you do, when you click on the Form button a menu will appear as shown below:

Once you have selected the "Scheduling" option, the Book/Scheduling Module will appear as shown below:

Select the day for which you wish to perform validations.  As shown above, click on the Validate button on the toolbar.  A menu will appear below the button.  Select "HCV Selected Day Now" from the menu option. Once this option is selected, Visual Practice checks the default billing provider to determine if the provider has an HCV account.  Health care providers are only authorized by the Ministry of Health to validate their own patient's health card information.

If the default billing provider's HCV information is present and he/she is licensed for HCV in Visual Practice, the list of patients for that day will be passed to the HCV validation module for processing.  As Visual Practice proceeds to validate the information, the Health Card Validation progress window appears.  

If your modem volume is turned up, you will hear the modem connect to datapac.  Once there is a connection, the sound will disappear and there will be a pause in screen activity as Visual Practice logs into the Ministry of Health HCV service and proceeds to pass the provider and each patient's health card onto the validation service.  As each reply is received, it is displayed on the Health Card Validation progress window, and in the background, the patient's validation information in the Patient Registry is updated.  This enables you to keep a record of the validation status for that patient and recall it at a later time, as shown below:

Once validation of the list of patients is complete, the modem will disconnect and the validation progress window will disappear from the screen.