Wait List User Guide
Wait List User Guide
Accuro’s Wait List provides a single location from which you can prioritize
and book appointments that there is no immediate availability for.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 3
CONFIGURATION .................................................................................................... 4
Provider Management ........................................................................................ 5
Completion Management ................................................................................... 6
Manage Date Types............................................................................................. 7
Consult Site Management ................................................................................... 8
Surgical Management ......................................................................................... 9
Procedure Management ..................................................................................... 9
Body Area Management ................................................................................... 10
Wait List Configuration...................................................................................... 10
OR Booking Package .......................................................................................... 11
New Request Management ............................................................................... 13
Legend Configuration ........................................................................................ 14
REPORTING .......................................................................................................... 28
Wait List Main Screen Reporting ....................................................................... 28
Accuro Reports .................................................................................................. 29
Wait List: ........................................................................................................ 29
Wait List Consult Wait Times:......................................................................... 29
Wait List Surgical Wait Times: ........................................................................ 30
Query Builder .................................................................................................... 31
Data Analytics ................................................................................................... 32
INTRODUCTION
The Wait List is a powerful tool that can be enabled to help you organize and prioritize patients
waiting for appointments and/or surgical procedures for which there is no immediate
availability. When setting up the Wait List, you must complete several Configuration items
before you can use it. However, to know what areas of configuration you would like to
customize, you may need to know How to Use the Wait List first. It may be beneficial to read
this User Guide fully before following the step-by-step Configuration so you can customize this
tool in the best way for your clinic.
CONFIGURATION
If you do not see the Wait List Tab in your Navigation Bar along the left-hand side of Accuro, it
will first have to be enabled. Any Accuro user who is a System Administrator can do this by
going to the Accuro Start Menu and searching Modules. Next, select Configure Modules and
check off Surgical Wait List. Log out and back in to see this section appear in Accuro.
Now that the module is enabled, initial set up and clinic specific configuration must be done
before the Wait List can be used. This configuration is done in three main areas. The first is in
the Wait List window itself under the Tools menu. The second is in buttons along the bottom
of the Wait List window, and the third area is in the individual Wait List Booking Request.
PROVIDER MANAGEMENT
All Providers who will have patients on the Wait List must be added in the Provider
Management Section.
1. Within the Wait List window, navigate to the Tools section and select Provider
Management.
2. Select Import to add a new Provider to the Wait List.
3. Select the ellipses next to the Provider Field to search for and select the Provider. Enter
information in any fields that are not auto populated. The Payee Number and Phone
Number are optional. Adding the Payee or Practitioner Number will not affect billing
4. Click Select and then OK.
5. Repeat the above steps for every needed Provider.
This will allow patients on the Wait List to be assigned to the correct Provider.
Note: Use the Add Button only if you need to add a provider to the Wait List that does not
have an active instance in your Accuro.
COMPLETION MANAGEMENT
In the Completion Management section, you can customize and select options for fillable fields
under the Completion Tab on the Wait List booking request.
For example, if you would like to send an After-Care form to every patient after their
appointment, you can create a checkbox with the title “After Care Form Sent”. This will now
show under the Completion Tab as an item to check off.
SURGICAL MANAGEMENT
In the Surgical Management Section, all the locations where surgery may take place must be
added.
PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT
In the Procedure Management section, all procedures a patient is on the Wait List for must be
added. Using this configuration is mandatory for populating any reporting features and for
calculating wait times.
6. Under the Appointment Booking Wait List Prompt select which procedures will trigger
reconciliation against the requests. This means if there is a procedure on the Wait List
that you do not want a reconciliation prompt for, enter them here.
OR BOOKING PACKAGE
The OR Booking Package is an available list of configured forms that can be accessed right
from the Wait List window or from within a New Booking Request. It allows you to select any
required forms that may pertain to the reason the patient is being added to the Wait List. To
indicate which forms should populate in the list when OR Booking Package is selected for a
New Booking Request, we need to first categorize them correctly within the Form Editor.
OR Booking Forms you can only have one of. This is a standard booking form that would go
with all your surgical requests and will always be the first page of the OR Booking Package. You
MUST choose an OR Booking form or else you can’t proceed.
OR Assessment Forms are optional forms and you can choose more than one. Examples are a
consent form, special equipment form, or a BMI form. You may not need these for all patients
or procedures.
Please also see the Wait List – Forms Component Names companion document for further
instruction on how to have information from the Wait List Booking Request automatically
populate into the OR Booking forms.
• Complaint
Consult Information
Surgical Information
Your office will decide how many or how few options and customizations you would like to use
in these drop downs based on office needs.
Trainer Tip: Many clinics like to view their Wait List by Consult Types. You can add every type of
consult a patient may be waiting for using the above instructions. Then, using Views and
Customizations, you can view a list by each type!
LEGEND CONFIGURATION
The Legend, available at the bottom of the main Wait List window, is
where you can change the color of items on the Wait List by status.
1. Click on the name of the Status you would like to change the
color of. This will open a new window.
2. Choose a color under the Swatches Tab or use the HSV, HSL,
RGB, or CMYK to customize your own.
FEATURE ACCESS
A System Administrator must choose which features each User or Role has access to use or
configure with the Wait List. Feature Access can be configured in Manage Security under
Feature Access Management. (Accuro Start Menu > Users > Manage Security > Feature Access)
For further information on Roles, Permissions and Feature Access please locate the Accuro User
Guide in Accuro under the Start Menu. Click Help to bring up the Accuro User Guide and
search for the topic you would like more information on.
The following features can be enabled or disabled for each Role or User:
Please keep in mind that you can decide to use the Wait List differently and may choose to skip
or add steps as your office deems fit.
RECEIVING A REFERRAL
Once a referral is received into the documents section:
1. If the patient does not already exist in Accuro, add the Patient into Accuro using F6
2. File the document to the patient chart or send to a Provider to review.
3. If you didn’t just add the Patient to Accuro, click F4 and navigate to the Wait List History
tab to confirm that the patient is not already on the Wait List for the same reason.
4. If the referral is accepted the patient can be added to the Wait List using the steps
below.
• Priority Date
• Request Date
• Referral Date
• Procedures: Area and Procedure
• Patient Unavailability
• Complaint
• Status: Waiting
Click ‘Add’ to save the information entered and finish adding the patient to the Wait List.
1. Filters: The filters here allow you to see the Wait List requests by View, Status, Provider,
Procedure, and Complaint, or any combination of the four that you would like to see.
a. Views allow you to customize, per user, how you would like to see the Wait List
and save it for future use. You may want a separate view for each type of request
that you book on the Scheduler (ie. Shoulder Consults or Hip Consults). Navigate
to the Views dropdown and select Manage. This will bring up the Manage Wait
List Views Window. Where you can create, edit or copy Views.
Using the dropdowns, select whichever options you would like to see on your custom Wait List
View.
Trainer Tip: Views can be shared between users within the same database. When creating a
view, select which office your would like to share your view with by using the Share to Office
dropdown! Views that have been shared with you will be indicated by the check box next to the
View name!
b. Provider allows you to view requests by the the Provider that is on the request.
c. Procedure allows you to view only selected Procedures a patient is waiting for.
d. Complaint allows you to view requests by the Complaint listed on the request.
2. Date Filters: The Date Filters allow you to choose which type of date you would like to
filter the requests by and between which two dates. For example, if you want to find all
requests in the last 6 months you would choose ‘Request Date’ and enter in the date 6
months ago to today.
3. Ad Hoc Filters: The Ad Hoc Filters allow you to see a list of patients by a very specific
option you might use on the fly instead of saving an entire View for the future. For
example, Provider Speciality. Remove this Ad Hoc filter by click on the outline to the left
of the black (filled in) Filter Button.
4. Column Options Button: The Column Options Button allows you to choose columns you
would like to see in your main Wait List view. For example, if your office does not use
the Available to be Canceled option, you can remove it from view. The columns you
choose to see are applied to the currently selected View from the Views dropdown. You
may want to set the columns for each view that you have created. For example, if you
have your Consult Wait List view selected you will likely not need to see the Surgical
date fields so you would deselect those column options.
Trainer Tip: Create an Urgent Consult Requests View! In the Views dropdown, select Manage.
Click on the Consult Wait List view and then select the Copy Button. Change the Name of your
new view to Urgent Consult Requests. Next, in the Consult Priority drop down choose Urgent
and Emergency and press OK to save your view. This View will now only show requests with
those priorities!
1. Patient Position: Patient Position will show the order in which a patient should be
booked by on each the Surgical (S) or Consult (C) Wait List. This is calculated based on
the Requested Date, Priority and how long total the patient can wait for. Accuro takes
the requested date as the date the patient was added to the Wait List and then adds
the number of days we said they could wait based on their Priority on the Wait List to
calculate a “Booked By” date. It will then order the patients on your list according to
this. However, the patients with shorter waiting times (Urgent (7 days) vs. Regular (180
days) will have a higher patient position.
2. Overdue flag: This icon will show if a patient is past the date you had indicated they
should have their appointment or surgery booked by.
3. Requested Date: This will show the date that they were entered on the Wait List
4. Consult and Surgical Book by: This will show the date the request must be booked by.
This date is calculated by taking the Request Date and adding the max number of days
as indicated by the Priority that we said the patient can wait. For example, if a patient’s
Request date was January 1 and the Priority indicated a max wait time of 7 days, the
Booked By date would be Jan 8.
5. Patient Priority: This will show the Priority you chose for this patient request.
6. Column Option Selector: This window’s columns can be configured with the Column
Options Button in the top right corner that allows you to view only columns that are
relevant to what you want to see. These selections can be configured per Wait List view
selected.
7. Other Customizable Options: Click the column heading to sort by that column and click
that heading again to reverse the order. You will be able to tell by the triangle that
appears next to the name which order, ascending or descending, you are viewing.
Using options 1-4 and any other stipulations you have in your office, you can decide which
patient should be booked next.
1. You can quickly move to the Scheduler and select the patient you want to book by right
clicking on the patient in the Wait List window and select Book Patient.
2. Create an appointment on the scheduler using your standard workflow and fill in the
Appointment Details, then press ‘OK’ to save.
3. If the patient has a Status of Waiting on a Wait List, the Wait List Requests window will
appear prompting you to reconcile a request from the Wait List with the appointment.
4. This window’s columns can be configured with the Column Options Button in the top
right corner that allows you to view only columns that are relevant to what you want to
see.
5. Click to highlight the correct request and select which configured date you would like to
be automatically updated. If they are being booked for a Consult, it is recommended to
update the First Consult date and if they are booked for a Surgery, it is recommended
to update the Booked Date as these are needed for reporting. This is where the dates
you configured in Manage Date Types begin to impact the Wait List requests.
6. In the bottom left of the Wait List Requests window, there is a Configure Button
available. This Configure Button will give you the option to have the Wait List Date drop
down default to have no selection, rather than defaulting to another option.
7. Now, the patient has the status associated with the date you selected, and the
corresponding date field has been populated with the date of the appointment. This
effectively removes the patient from your Wait List view.
• Decision Date
• Status: Waiting
COMPLETION ITEMS
Once surgery has been completed, and the booking request is ready to be closed in Accuro, it
is time to do the completion items that were configured for your Office. In this example, the
clinic is confirming that they spoke to the patient and sent them their After-Care Form.
Select the Mass Status Update button at the bottom of the Wait List Window.
This will allow you to select the type of requests to be updated and what you would like to
update them to.
In the below example, we want to change all Surgical Requests that are listed as Completed,
but were accidentally left as Active, to Completed and Closed.
This will Mass Update the status of all the patients that fit the chosen parameters.
REPORTING
Reporting on the Wait List is possible in multiple ways. If the recommended configurations in
this User Guide were followed, all reporting options are available.
Please see the Wait List Views section for instructions on filtering your requests.
Once you have a desired view of the Wait List, it can be:
1. Printed using the button shown. The print version is formatted but cannot be
configured or changed.
2. Exported to CSV. You can choose what information you would like to export.
Remember that this export will contain Patient Health Information.
ACCURO REPORTS
Another reporting method is found in the Accuro Reporting Section. Accuro Start Menu >
Reports > Reports. Under the Scheduling Reports, there are three Wait List reports available.
For this reporting to have accurate data, the Procedure and Body Area fields on a Wait List
request must be used.
Wait List:
This report will show you a list of all patients on a specific Providers Wait List.
QUERY BUILDER
The Query Builder is a tool that allows data in Accuro to be queried into a report. This can be
accessed in the Accuro Start Menu > Reports > Query Builder.
5. Select Add or Update Rule. Now that you have the rules you would like for the Wait List,
you can repeat the steps to add more rules to make your report as precise as you want.
For example, you may want to see a list of patients by city.
6. Click Run Report.
For further information on the Query Builder and creating your own reports, please access the
Accuro User Guide in Accuro under the Start Menu. Click Help to bring up the Accuro User
Guide and search Query Builder.
DATA ANALYTICS
Accuro offers an enhanced Data Analytics and Dashboard platform that allows Providers to
easily organize their patient and office data into insightful and visually appealing reports as well
as work with healthcare organizations to support patient programs directly from the software.
Data from the Wait List can be used to populate this Dashboard. If you or your office are
interested in learning more about Data Analytics, please contact us at 1 (866) 454-4681.