Online Scheduling

Enabling Writeback

The following information will guide you through how to enable Eaglesoft appointment writeback for Online Scheduling. 

• Confirm Eaglesoft Version
  We support Eaglesoft versions 18+ for appointment writeback
• Upgrade .NET Framework
  Updating Your NET Framework
• Restart Practice Server
  You can now restart your server. (This will only take 5-10 minutes but should be done in the evening after COB to not create performance issues during business hours.)

Once logged into RevenueWell, walk through the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Settings Icon
2. Click "Scheduling"
3. Turn Online Scheduling on using the toggle
4. Scroll to select "Sync Appointments to PMS"

Appointment Settings

With Online Scheduling, you can organize appointment settings to reflect the times and frequency that you are comfortable with patients scheduling without talking to the office. For example, you may want to allow a bit of prep time in between appointments, depending on your staff on certain days. We also have the ability to limit booking, this may be helpful if you want to have 48-hour advance notice so that someone doesn't book the night before an 8 am opening. The best part - it's completely customizable for what best suits your practice! 

To determine the best parameters to set, think about:

• What times are appointments allowed to start for your office? Every 15 minutes (9:00, 9:15, 9:30, 9:45…) or less frequently?
• Advanced Notice: what’s the soonest a patient could book their appointment?
• Calendar Range: what’s the farthest out a patient could book their appointment
• Calendar Availability: should available times be pulled from your operatory or provider calendar? 

The patient can choose a specific provider or “any”. When “any provider” is selected, the provider that has availability and appears farthest-right on the schedule is automatically assigned. The practice can change the provider. 

Set a Time Block:

A Time Block makes times unavailable for online scheduling. For customers using Eaglesoft, we import operatory blocks that were created in the PMS into RevenueWell.
We will not yet read provider hours, custom hours, or holidays from Eaglesoft (though we do recognize holidays entered in RW). Practices use these to track things like lunch hours and providers who work fewer hours than the general practice hours and these should still be entered as time blocks on the RW calendar.
*Note that blocks created in the PMS can only be updated or removed from within the PMS.

Below is an Eaglesoft time block that has been imported to the Scheduler in RevenueWell:

When scheduling a time block, you can set up an All Day Block or specify the start and end time. If the Time Block should be reoccurring, set it up to Repeat. At least one provider or operatory is required. Once the time block is created, double-click to review the details or edit.

Appointment Types

The patient will start by selecting one of the following: I am a new patient If a new patient has booked an appointment, you will follow the new patient workflow to create a patient record that will write back to your PMS I am a returning patient If a returning patient has booked an appointment, the system will look at the birthday of the patient and match it to the record in your PMS.
Next, they will choose the appointment type needed.

Provider vs. Operatory Based Scheduling

Provider Based Scheduling

With Online Scheduling, choose which appointment types give patients the ability to book with a specific provider.

Navigate to: Appointment Preferences > Edit Appointment Type > Toggle on "Patient Provider Preference" If you haven't already associated providers with this appointment type, you'll be prompted to do so before saving.

Work Flow: 

When a practice reviews an incoming request, the provider preference is in bold.
The "Patient Provider Preference" and a tooltip will also show in the “Accept an Appointment” screen and “Edit Appointment” screen. You can add or change providers using the “+” and “x” buttons.

The tooltip in these sections will include a recommendation to contact the patient if you need to change the provider to someone other than who the patient selected.

Operatory Based Scheduling

There are two types of calendars in RevenueWell: an operatory calendar and a provider calendar. You can customize which one drives availability in the Online Scheduling tool.

For billing purposes, some practices default the provider on all appointments to the doctor. If this is the case at your practice, you’ll need to use Operatory-based Availability to ensure the Online Scheduling tool can read your hygienist’s calendars.

Changing the Setting:

1. Go to your Appointment Preferences and change Calendar Availability to Operatory-based:
   
2. Scroll down to Appointment Types and edit each one. Fill in the appropriate operatories:
   

Your patients will not see your Operatory names when booking appointments. They’ll simply see which times are available!

Review Appointments

Once you’ve enabled Online Scheduling and made it available to your patients, you’ll be alerted that there are new appointments to review when the calendar icon (on the left-hand side of the screen) shows a dot:

In the RW Calendar, the Practice sees a list of new appointments patients scheduled or requested online. They can accept, edit, or decline/dismiss each one:

Previewing Requests
Before you decide whether to accept or decline an appointment, you can preview its details. Direct Scheduled appointments appear on the calendar and the New Requests List. On the calendar, you’ll see they’re styled differently until they’ve been accepted:

Click on the appointment to review details and Accept (with or without changes) or Decline. You’ll also have the option to send a message to the patient:

To preview an Appointment Request, click on it in the New Requests list and then click Preview for one of the dates/times:

To schedule the appointment, click Select next to the best date/time (or click Add Another Time).

Accepting Appointments

After you’ve clicked Accept, you can edit any of the appointment details like time and provider. You must also add an operatory.

Patient Communication

When you Accept or Decline an appointment you’ll have the option to send the patient a message.

Text is the default communication method (when the patient’s phone number is available). They’re sent from the practice’s long code and appear under Messenger.
If you select Email instead, it’s sent from the sender listed under Settings > Email Settings. If the patient responds, it will go to that email address' inbox (outside of RW).

Create a New Patient

If a new patient submits a request, you are now able to create a patient profile from RevenueWell that will write back to the PMS. To do so:

1. 1. "Select" the request within Online Scheduling.
   

    

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   2. If there is no record of the patient, you will see the “Not Connected” error.
   Click “Link Patient Profile”
   

   

3. 3. On the next page, select “Create a patient Profile”
   

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   4. Here you can see the information the new patient submitted with their request. Click "Create Patient" and RevenueWell will link that patient to their appointment and write back the new patient to your PMS.
   

5. 5. Once the appointment is saved, the appointment will follow its normal workflow of an unconfirmed appointment
   

   

Using Write back

This feature supports:

• Appointments booked via Online Scheduling will writeback to the PMS after being approved in RW.
• Appointments manually created in RW can writeback to the PMS.
• Changes to appointments in either system will update the other.
• New patients can be created in RW to writeback to the PMS.

For appointments to writeback, your PMS needs to know which appointment type from their list should be assigned. To do this, click "Edit" next to the appointment type in your RevenueWell Scheduler Settings.

Here, you will choose which appointment type correlates.

You can also add a new appointment type and title it the same as what you use in your PMS so that it matches:

Each appointment must have a linked patient. No action is needed if the patient enters the same name & birthday the practice has on record. If the patient enters a nickname, the practice needs to confirm which patient record is correct.

New patients can also quickly be added to the system.
Once you approve an appointment, you can change the Eaglesoft appointment type if needed. Make sure that your own name is selected as the Eaglesoft author (it tells the PMS who created this appointment).

SYNCING:

• Appointments sync to the PMS in about 2 minutes.
• You will receive alerts if an appointment fails to sync. To see the sync error:
  • From the Scheduler screen, you will select "Sync Status"
  • By clicking on the Sync Error, you are brought to the Sync Status page, where you can review the issue with why the appointment request is not syncing.
  • Adjust the appointment details and click Submit to attempt another sync.

• To set up new Appointment Types:
  1. From the Lists menu, choose OnSchedule.
  2. From the OnSchedule sub-menu, choose Appointment Types. The Appointment Types list box is displayed.
  
  

  3. Select New to add a new Appointment Type. To edit an existing appointment type, highlight the description and select Edit. To delete an appointment type, highlight the description and click Delete. (However, Appointment Types can only be deleted if they have never been used.)
     

  

  4. Enter a Description for the new appointment type.

  5. Enter an amount in the Usual Amount field. This amount is used for Scheduled versus Goal Tracking. For more information about Scheduled vs. Goals, visit How to Use Month at a Glance (MAAG) - FAQ #6359

  6. Choose an Appointment Color. To access the available colors, simply select the colored rectangle next to Appt Type. A new window with new color choices will appear. You can also create a custom color by clicking in the large box on the right. The Color Solid window will show the color selected. After creating the color you wish, you can select, Add to Custom Colors to save the color for use later and click OK.

  7. Specify whether appointments that reference this appointment type are Performed By a Dentist or Hygienist.

  8. Check the box next to Update Next Reg Appt if you want this type to update the patient's next regular appointment date. Select the check box next to Update Next Prev Appt if you want this type to update the patient's next preventative appointment date. Example: You would select Update Next Reg Appt on a crown appointment type, but not for a Prophy.

  9. Check the box next to Use Patient Cleaning Time Units if appointments with this type should reference the cleaning units specified in Edit Person | Preferences for this patient.

  10. The option for 'Number of Units' has changed to Duration. Select the appropriate duration of time for the appointment type. Please note that Duration is only visible if you are not using Patient Cleaning Time Units.

  11. Provider Time Units (or in Version 15 and lower - Prim. Prov./Sec Prov Time), check the box next to each unit that is used by the dentist. For example, if you have four 10-minute units and the doctor is only involved during the middle 20 minutes, check the boxes next to 2 and 3.

  12. Select OK to save your new appointment type.

• To use Open Dental write-back, customers are required to be on Open Dental versions 22.4.28 + with the Open Dental e-Connector installed and running. For help identifying what version of Open Dental you have or any other questions, Open Dental Support can be contacted by phone at: (503) 363-5432 or by email at: service@opendental.com.

  To see Appointment Types or add new ones, within Open Dental:

  1. Navigate to Setup → Appointment Types
  2. Here you can see all of your appointment types and add new ones.

  Additionally, please know:
  1. RevenueWell cannot read manual time blocks from Open Dental
  2. RevenueWell can read appointments in Open Dental

• 1. You can use the initial appointment reasons list in the Appointment Information dialog box for quick access to procedures or codes you frequently add to appointments.

     

     

     For example, if you offer a discount on whitening trays and many of your patients are asking for that service, add that code to the Initial Reasons list so that you can add it to appointments quickly.

     The list of initial appointment reasons is set up in Definitions in the Office Manager. Codes that have been added to the list from the Office Manager are then available in the Appointment Book.
     

     Here’s how:

     1. From the Office Manager, click Maintenance > Practice Setup > Definitions.

     2. In the Definition Type drop-down list, select Appointment Reasons.

     3. Enter the procedure code and description of the procedure you want to add, and then click Add.

     

  Additionally, please know:

  • You cannot add procedures that require a tooth number, surface, quadrant, or sextant to the Initial appointment reasons list.

  • You can have up to 20 procedures listed in the Initial appointment reasons list.

• 1. From the Dentrix Ascend Home Screen, Select Settings → Schedule Templates
     

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     Once on the Schedule Template, navigate to appointment reasons
     

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     From here, you can add or modify your appointment reasons
     

  

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