Encounters - Overview

Encounters are the equivalent of Consultations in Vision 3. They are used to define and group data added during a consultation, for example acute medication, diagnosis and symptoms are contained together within one encounter. This makes it easy to see what was recorded during current and previous patient consultations.

Points to note:

• To add data to the patient record, you must first start an encounter, otherwise the patient record is view only, with the exception of issuing medication.
• When starting an encounter, you need to select the type of encounter you are having with the patient, for example, Surgery Consultation, Home Visit.
• You must remember to close an encounter when you have finished adding data to enable the data to be written back to your clinical system, for example, Vision 3.
• Encounters that are left open for 90 days, or encounters that are closed but your device has not connected to the internet for 90 days automatically delete.
• Open encounters are saved locally on your device and cannot be accessed from any other setting.
• You can see a list of all previous encounters by selecting the Encounters menu from the Patient Summary screen.