First thing in the morning, a schedule is printed with the appointments for that day. When a patient arrives, the receptionist keys in the arrival time. The system assigns a visit number and the patient's dental record is accessed and printed and given to the dentist. At the end of the appointment, the service code for each service performed on this visit is keyed in by the receptionist. Charges are not keyed in since they are stored in a file.
Patients make appointments by requesting a specific date and time.
The response to this request is either a rejection or a confirmed appointment. At the end of the day a floppy disk is prepared which contains, for each patient, patient name and bulling address, the visit number, date and time, and the services performed that day for the patient and the charges for the services. This is sent the Accurate Accounting. Accurate Accounting does the bulling and processes patient payments. A preliminary description of some data flows is also given.