Visits (encounters)
Charting a visit — draft to finalized, vitals, diagnoses, the visit charge, and amending a finalized record.
What a visit is
A visit is the medical-legal record of one encounter with a patient: complaint, vitals, notes, diagnoses, prescription, and the charge. Visits are typed — consultation, follow-up, emergency, procedure, lab review, or telemedicine — so the chart reads like a history, not a list of identical rows.
Only a practitioner can chart a visit: their name goes on the record. See Roles & permissions.
Draft, then finalized
A visit starts as a draft — edit freely while the patient is in the room. When you're done, finalize it: the record is signed with your name and locked. Finalizing asks for confirmation, because it can't be undone — that's what makes the record trustworthy.
If you get interrupted, the draft keeps. Coming back to the patient resumes the open draft instead of stacking a duplicate.
Amendments
Records are never edited after the fact and never deleted. Spot a mistake in a finalized visit? Amend it: Angel creates a correction linked to the original, both stay on the chart, and the chain shows who changed what and when. This is how medical records stay defensible.
Vitals — the nurse's part
While a visit is still a draft, nurses and assistants can record vitals (blood pressure, pulse, temperature, weight, height, and the rest) on it — the one part of the visit that isn't the doctor's alone. The rest of the visit stays read-only for them.
Diagnoses
Diagnoses are coded (ICD-10) with free-text detail. A diagnosis worth tracking beyond this visit — hypertension, diabetes — can be promoted to the patient's conditions list in one step; see Patients & charts.
The prescription
The prescription is written inside the visit, checked against the patient's allergies and drug interactions as you prescribe, and printed or WhatsApped as a PDF. Details in Prescriptions & favourites.
The visit charge
Each visit can carry a charge (consultation fee, procedure fee). The front desk collects it from the visit or from the payments list — see Payments & deposits. The charge can be set on the visit without touching the clinical record.
Still stuck?
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