Processing Tasks
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Notification alerts display on your user profile .
Select your user profile to display your notifications:
Select the notification to open the task, or select Close to clear the notification without opening it.
If Tasks is open but minimised or, hidden behind another screen, when you receive a new task or announcement, either:
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A red disk displays on Tasks on your taskbar
, or
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From the Vision 3 front screen, any new tasks and announcements display in the Tasks pane.
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The following notifications are flagged next to your user profile:
- New Task - Received when a task is allocated to you.
- New Comment - Received when a recipient adds to the conversation on a task you are included on.
- New Announcements - Received when you are included in an announcement.
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To view the contact information of a patient attached to a task, from the Patient Banner select the white arrow to display contact details if available.
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To start, or add to, a conversation:
- Select the required task from the tasks list.
- Select the Conversation tab
and any existing messages display.
- Enter your message, up to 1000 characters:
- Select Send and all recipients are notified via their user profile
that a message is pending.
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Select Options to access the processing choices from any specific task.
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To forward a task to a new recipient, select Options - Reissue or Edit, add them to the Recipient list and select Update.
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If you are due to be away, you can set an Out of Office to forward your tasks to another recipient while you are away.
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The red stripe in front of a task indicates that the task is urgent:
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When a task falls overdue the date displays in red:
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