View Treatment Notes screen. View Video, 2 min. 51 sec.

Treatment Notes List Box
The Treatment Notes List Box seen near the bottom of the screen displays all the treatments notes for the patient. Each treatment note is displayed as a single line so long notes will not display in their entirety. If you are not seeing the entire note the line will end with “…” indicating there is more to the note than is displayed. Each note displays the DDS of the note, DDS initials which is the doctor or hygienist to whom the note is assigned, the User which is the person who was logged in at the time of creating the note, and the Treatment Note itself. The Treatment Notes List Box is sorted in descending entry order (not necessarily date order) which puts the most recent notes first. The list is scrollable and as you click on any particular note that note will display in its entirety in the Editing Window at the top of the screen.

Tools to Automate Treatment Note Entry
Diamond Dental Software uses two basic methods to automate treatment note entry. These are Importing and Preset Categories.

• Importing refers to the importing of data that has already been entered into the Diamond Dental Software program. You may import posted procedures, prescriptions, medical history notes, and general notes.
• Preset Categories are eight user definable categories that appear as eight buttons across the top of the Treatment Progress Notes entry screen. Each category can have an unlimited number of pre-written treatment notes “snippets” that you may insert anywhere into the current treatment note you are working on.

Importing Procedure Transactions
You can import procedures that were posted for a patient by clicking the Import Tx button. This will insert the transactions that were posted for this patient into the current treatment note at the insertion point of the blinking cursor. Make sure the cursor is where you want the notes to be inserted. The only transactions that will be inserted are those that were posted with the date that is showing in the Date of Tx Note at the top of the Treatment Progress Notes entry screen. Only Procedure transactions will be imported. Adjustments and payments will not be included.

A sample of an imported transaction is seen here:

Crown - Porcelain/High Noble Metal, Code: D2750, Th: 20, DDS: WT, St: Started, by User: MJ

There are seven elements to the imported transaction. These elements are: