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Service Delivery Console - Advanced

Configure Surgery Connect's advanced features

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What is in the Advanced Area?

Surgery Connect has many advanced features, access and set the configuration around these features here

From your Service Delivery Console select Manage advanced settings

Or, click on Advanced from the menu at the top of the Service Delivery Console

Advanced Area Overview

When you access the Advanced area you will see the following options:


Patient Callback

From the Advanced In Manage Callback surgeries can configure and add a bespoke message patients see when viewing the Patient Callback queue position web page

Double-click on Manage Callback

The editable Patient Callback Webpage will open

Here surgeries can add a title and a bespoke message to patients

There are two free text box entries, one for the Title and the other for the Content. The title is limited to 60 characters, and the content of the message is limited to 220 characters

The formatting options for the message are; Bold, Italic, Underline and Embed Link only

Should the title and content fields not be completed then the following default message will be displayed on the webpage below the queue position:

Title

We Will Call You Back Soon

Body

Our team will be in touch soon, please have your phone with you to receive our call. If you no longer require the callback, please use the Cancel button below

The Queue Position in the SMS is hard coded in the Group Properties Block (SMS) and cannot be changed

Read our Patient Experience guide for patient callback


Check and Cancel

In Manage integration API users surgeries can add their Check and Cancel API User

You will only have access to the Advanced tab once the Support Team have added Check and Cancel to your service

From the Advance tab select Manage Integration API users

Select + Add New Integration API User button and this will allow you to add the details of the new API user you created

Complete the required fields


The Label can be named by you and is a means to identify the API User easily

The Clinical System Reference will auto-fill if you have only one CDB, if you have more than one, please use the drop-down box to select the correct reference

The API User Name and API User password are those of the new API User created in EMIS

Save the Integration API User

A Success notification will show in the top right-hand corner of your screen

Your new API User will now show in your API User list


When you are ready to use the API User you will need to Validate it by clicking on the validate button


Service Settings

The Service Settings is where you decide whether to write patient contact activity back to the patient record with SNOMED code

With Service Settings turned on you can file call activity without having to file the call recording

These settings will sit at the service level where you can switch them on or off for all users of that service

The settings are for Inbound Calls, Outbound Calls and Photos - sent and received

Turn the Setting to On to file activity automatically, NOT STORE FILES

Once you have applied the Settings, all users MUST exit the Phonebar and relaunch it for the update to take effect

If turned on, the textual entries in the patient record will read as follows:

Inbound call

Inbound call answered by [User Name]

[Date] [Time]

Calling number - [CLI]

Talk Duration - [Call Length]

The SNOMED Code to be written for Inbound Calls is 25691000000103

Outbound Call

Outbound call made by [UserName]

[Date] [Time]

Number Dialled

Talk Duration - [Call Length] (if 0 it will say "Not Answered")

The SNOMED Code to be written for Outbound Calls is 24671000000101

Photo Request Sent

Photo request SMS sent by [User Name]

[Date] [Time]

Sent to - [Mobile Number] or [Email]

The SNOMED Code to be written for a photo request SMS is 279991000000102

Photo Received

Photo received by [User Name]

[Date] [Time]

The SNOMED Code to be written for a photo received is 257444003

For SystmOne ONLY when a photo is sent by the patient the code written will be CTV3 of X79n4

SMS

The SNOMED Code to be written for SMS is 279991000000102

Even if the data is written to the patient record, you can still see it in the

Contact History so you can file items from there too


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