Description
This program enables you to move appointments that have been created forpatients in the visit scheduling transaction. These are patientappointments with an attending person or in a treatment room. Theattending person and treatment room are also referred to asplanning objects.
It is only possible to move appointments from a planning object A (inthe From group frame) to a planning object B (in the Togroup frame). Note that planning objects A and B can be identical.
The selection criteria under From enable you to stipulate theappointments of a planning object that are to be moved. Under To
, you specify the interval for rescheduling the appointments and thetime slots that should be taken into consideration.
By clicking More Criteria you can enter additional criteria forthe source and target planning objects in a further dialog box.
You can specify a reason for moving the appointment in theCancellation Reason field. The system saves this text for eachappointment moved.
If you set the Notification Desired indicator, you stipulate thatthe patient is to be informed that the appointment has been rescheduled.Such notifications can then be printed for appointments for which thisindicator has been set, using the appointment notification collectiveprint program.
If you set the Overbook Existing indicator on the additionalMore Criteria selection screen, the system overbooks existingappointments or time slots within the time interval concerned in thetarget schedule when appointments are moved. Defined overbookingcapacities are taken into account for this.
An appointment is overbooked only when there are no more open time slotsin the interval of the day in question. This means that when you moveappointments, first the open time slots for one day are filled, and thenthe overbooking capacities defined for the day and period concerned areused, before the open time slots for the next day are filled.
If the indicator is not selected, overbooking capacities are not takeninto account in the target schedule when you move appointments.

Precondition
The program only takes into account appointments that have been createdusing the visit scheduling function. Such an appointment can be aprovisional appointment (no assignment to a patient number or to acase), or an outpatient visit.
The Overbook Existing indicator can only be set by users who havebeen granted the overbooking authorization.

Output
The results log contains all appointments along with the new appointmentdata. If an appointment could not be moved, the reason is output in themessage column.
The results list is an interactive worklist from which you can executethe following functions for the visits displayed:

• Save Appointments

If you did not set theSave Immediately indicator on the selectionscreen, you can save the moved appointments using this function.

• Change Appointment

This function is only active if the moved appointments have already beensaved. It enables you to maintain the data of an appointment and thuscorrect the appointment move.

• Planning Object Schedule

This function is only active if the moved appointments have been saved.It enables you to access the daily schedule of a planning object. If youselected an appointment in the list, the system displays the relevantsection of the daily schedule of the appropriate planning object forthis appointment. The functions available from the daily schedule enableyou to correct the appointment move, for example.