Description
The program reorganizes the table of provisional appointments.Provisional appointments are created in IS-H/i.s.h.med in the followingform:

• Visit appointments in the visit scheduling function of Outpatient Clinic
Management

• Visit/surgery appointments and inpatient admission appointments in
preregistration processing

• Visit appointments using the i.s.h.med planning grid


• Surgery appointments in the i.s.h.med surgery planning function

A provisional appointment record contains a compressed andcorrespondingly structured form of patient-, case- and visit data whichenables you to work efficiently with the appointment schedulingfunctions. In addition, the provisional booking of appointments lets youcreate an appointment without reference to a patient, case orvisit/surgery that actually exists in the system.
Since provisional appointment data is used exclusively in theappointment scheduling functions and elapsed provisional appointmentsare no longer relevant for scheduling, you can periodically run thisprogram in order to delete these elapsed appointments.
This program also deletes provisional appointments that are scheduledfor preregistrations. The preregistrations for these provisionalappointments remain in the system, but the dates/times scheduled foradmission and surgery or treatment are deleted.

Precondition
Provisional appointments are only created for the above mentionedapplication areas. If you do not use these application areas in yoursystem, it is not necessary to reorganize provisional appointments withthis program.

Output
A success message outputs the number of deleted provisional appointmentsin the job log.