Update patient's appointment status

change status to "arrived" to update the patient's status to arrived, do one of the following click the appointment and drag the appointment to the waiting area click the appointment then click the arrive icon right click on the appointment and select arrive from the pop up menu note the patient will appear in the waiting area with an hourglass icon the wait column will show how long the patient has been waiting move patient to exam room select the patient in the waiting area and drag to the appropriate exam room in the location column move status to "seen" note the patient’s status will automatically change to “seen” when the provider starts entering clinical notes for the patient the patient disappears from the waiting area and the icon in the exam room area changes from an hourglass to an eye change status to “close attendance” right click the appointment (in the attendance location or the appointment slot) and select close attendance from the pop up menu the patient disappears from the exam room the appointment slot is marked to indicate that the attendance is closed note this step can be completed by either the provider or the administration staff