Visit
Visits are the fundamental unit of scheduling in your organization. The capture the idea of one or more patients being seen at a specific time and location by one or more clinicians.
Visits are made up of one or more Patient Appointments, one or more Clinician Appointments, and the corresponding number of Encounters between the patients and clinicians on the visits.
Depending on where the services are rendered and how, the visit is said to have a particular Delivery models.
The Visit Location is where the patient is being seen. For in-clinic service areas, this is the address of the clinic. For mobile service areas, this is the address of where the patient will be at the time of the visit, whether the services are happening in-person or virtually.
If clinicians are conducting services in-person, then they will also be at the visit location at the time of the visit. However, if they are conducting the visit virtually, they may be at a different location when calling in to the visit.
The Visit Start Time and Visit Duration are the overall start time and duration that apply for all patient appointments and clinician appointments on the visit.