1. Clinic + Pharmacy + Lab
  2. Who it's for
  3. Independent clinic
Who it's for

Independent clinic

An independent clinic can use patient and encounter records to keep the scheduled visit, its clinician, and its clinical evidence together. Clinical Coordinator handles intake and encounter status. Licensed Clinician records notes and observations. Clinical Reviewer can read a visit waiting for review, while Clinical Governance Administrator keeps care-team assignments and privileges current.

How Clinic + Pharmacy + Lab is set up for you

Visit identity

Use the patient number to distinguish returning patients with similar names, then create a new encounter for each care episode.

Clinical handoff

Record observations with their units and notes with their author and signing state before closing the visit.

Follow-up

Assign a care task to a specific person and patient, with a due date that survives the end of the encounter.

Billing review

Link a charge to the encounter and check its service description and amount before approval.

An independent clinic can use patient and encounter records to keep the scheduled visit, its clinician, and its clinical evidence together. Clinical Coordinator handles intake and encounter status. Licensed Clinician records notes and observations. Clinical Reviewer can read a visit waiting for review, while Clinical Governance Administrator keeps care-team assignments and privileges current.

Start with an existing patient, one upcoming visit, and the people who will coordinate and document it. Agree which visit types staff use and when they change Scheduled to Arrived and in progress. Have the clinician record an observation and a note, then let the reviewer read the visit when it is awaiting review. Finish the visit and assign a follow-up task that another person can find in their work list.

Next, rehearse a charge and a patient payment as separate records. The charge links to the encounter; the payment links to the patient and carries its own reference and status. Decide how staff check the payment reference against the clinic's financial system. Use a second visit for the same patient to test that the team chooses the right encounter each time.

Features to start with

Roles on the team

Clinical Coordinator
Owns care operations setup, planning and assigned operational work. Record entry: Patients, Encounters, Care Tasks, Consents, Charges. Read only: People, Payments. Pages: Business Overview, Encounters.
Licensed Clinician
Captures assigned care operations work and evidence.

Set up Clinic + Pharmacy + Lab your way.

Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.

How to get started