I thought I’d best illustrate this with a short video clip of how I do this on my Treo.

(sorry no audio notes, just text notes:)

Launching Agendus - my default view is the Agendus day view

To quickly create a new meeting, simply hit the “M” key, notice I have “Patients” as my default meeting category

I then scroll up to set the time of encounter (typing the number 15 quickly sets the start time as 1500, default meeting duration in my case is 10 minutes - but you can change this from Agendus’ preferences)

Back to the day view, you start typing the patients name, note how Agendus intelligently recalls other contacts in your database as you type.

If you navigate to the Contact icon on the right of the name and hit Select, you will be taken to the Contact view (John Doe’s in this case, and you’ll see I like to put in clinical details like Diagnosis in the Notes field)

Next just type in your meeting notes. I illustrate the use of Shortcut5 - just by typing “.adm” I get “admitted”
After typing your notes (or indeed any time later on) you may want to “Log” the notes (/L). By doing so, the meeting notes appear in the Notes field of the Contact, complete with a Date stamp.

Back in the Day view, its easy to create a follow-up schedule. Scroll down to the item, press and hold the centre of the Dpad and a list will pop-up, which includes the Schedule Follow Up option. I illustrate how easy it is to make a follow-up meeting.
The same pop-up list has also the Contact History which I find useful when trying to review previous and future appointments.

There you have it. A simple 2 minute video guide on how to use Agendus to manage your patient appointments.