CLINIC HQ
Table of Contents
CLINIC HQ
1.
Start Here
1.1.
Technology
1.1.1.
Computers
1.1.2.
Tablets
1.1.3.
Tech in Real Life
1.1.4.
Printers
1.1.5.
Prescription Label Printers
1.1.6.
Barcode Scanners
1.1.7.
Wifi Hotspots
1.1.8.
Credit Card Machines
1.2.
HQ Uses Google Chrome
1.2.1.
Fitting HQ To Your Screen
1.2.2.
Bookmark Pages
1.2.3.
Latest Version of Chrome
1.2.4.
Clearing Your Cache
1.2.5.
Using Multiple Tabs
1.2.6.
Pinning a Tab
1.2.7.
Creating a Shortcut to HQ
1.2.8.
Allowing HQ Pop-Ups
1.2.9.
Allowing Geolocation
1.3.
Logging In
1.3.1.
HQ OnePass
1.3.2.
Two-Factor Authentication
1.3.3.
Changing Your Password
1.3.4.
Logging Out
1.3.5.
Password Setup
1.3.5.1.
Updating User Information
1.4.
Quick Search
1.5.
The Dashboard
1.6.
Getting Help
1.6.1.
Open a Help Ticket
1.6.2.
Clinic HQ University
1.6.3.
Training Clinic
1.6.4.
What HQ Will Not Provide Assistance On
2.
The Calendars
2.1.
Spay/Neuter Calendar
2.2.
Wellness Calendar
2.2.1.
Managing the Wellness Calendar
2.3.
Mobile Locations
2.4.
Troubleshooting
3.
Scheduling Concepts
3.1.
Correctly Scheduling Appts
3.2.
Public, Volume, TNR
3.3.
Owner vs. Client
3.4.
SN, Wellness, Rechecks
3.5.
Internal vs. External
3.6.
Anesthetic vs. Non-Anesthetic
3.7.
Priority Scheduling
3.8.
Mobile Clinic Scheduling
3.9.
Spay/Neuter Appointments by Time
3.10.
Things to Know About Walk Ins
3.11.
Multi-Clinic Considerations
3.12.
Overbooking
3.13.
Scheduler Log
3.14.
Already Sterilized Status
3.15.
Quick Search Action Menu
3.16.
Feral Cats – Scheduling & Services
3.17.
Address Requirements & Special Circumstances
3.18.
Secondary Owners
3.19.
Medication Pickups and Refills
4.
Making Spay/Neuter Appts
4.1.
Public Spay/Neuter Appointments
4.1.1.
S/N From the Calendar
4.1.2.
S/N Online (E-Appointments)
4.1.2.1.
Priority Appointments
4.2.
Volume Spay/Neuter Appointments
4.2.1.
Making a New Volume Client
4.2.2.
Releasing Appointments to the VCP
4.2.3.
Bulking Volume Client Appointments
4.2.4.
Managing Volume Client Appointments
5.
Making Wellness Appointments
5.1.
Wellness Appts From the Calendar
5.2.
Wellness Appts Online (E-Appointments)
5.3.
Vaccine Clinic Scheduling Strategies
5.3.1.
Internally
5.3.2.
Externally
6.
Making Recheck Appointments
6.1.
Recheck overview
6.1.1.
Scheduling Recheck Appointments
7.
Changing Appointments
7.1.
Canceling Appointments
7.1.1.
Canceling SN, Basic Wellness & Recheck
7.1.2.
Canceling Advanced Wellness Appointments
7.1.3.
Canceling an Appointment with a Deposit
7.1.4.
Revert a Canceled Appointment
7.1.5.
Deleting Appointments
7.1.5.1.
What is the Difference between Canceling and Deleting
7.2.
Rescheduling Appointments
7.3.
No-Showing Appointments
7.3.1.
Volume Client No-Shows
7.4.
Converting Public to Volume Clients & Vice Versa
8.
Understanding Various Paperwork (Templates)
8.1.
Consent Forms
8.1.1.
Getting Clients to Pre-Sign Consent Forms
8.1.2.
Signing Consent Forms Day-Of
8.1.3.
Deleting, Resending Consent Forms
8.2.
Drug Baggie Insert
8.3.
Treatment Sheets
8.4.
Cage Cards
8.5.
Take Home Paperwork
8.6.
The Medical Record
8.7.
High Risk Waivers
8.7.1.
Verbal High-Risk Waivers
8.7.2.
Email High-Risk Waivers
8.8.
The Rabies Certificate
8.9.
The Spay/Neuter Certificate
8.10.
The Roster
8.11.
Print/Email Paperwork
8.12.
How to create templates
9.
What To Do Before Your Day
9.1.
Review Consent Forms For Health Issues
9.2.
Send Pre-Payment Link
9.3.
Make a Patient Packet
9.4.
Print Some Blanks
10.
What To Do During Your Day
10.1.
Step 1: Start Your Drug Log (Daily Task)
10.1.1.
Centralized vs Decentralized Drug Drawing
10.1.2.
Who Should Start the Drug Log?
10.1.3.
Confirming AM Bottle Balances
10.1.4.
Finalizing From the Day Before
10.2.
Step 2: Check In
10.2.1.
Suggested Flow
10.2.2.
Chaos Reducing Strategies
10.2.3.
Curbside Check-in
10.2.3.1.
Parking Lot Strategies
10.2.3.1.1.
If you have a circular driveway
10.2.3.1.2.
Non-circular driveway, parking spots only
10.2.3.1.3.
No parking lot, now what?
10.2.3.2.
Being Safe Curbside
10.2.3.3.
Car Side Script (PAASS)
10.2.3.4.
Check In Via E-Lobby
10.2.3.5.
Taking Payment
10.2.4.
The Divvy
10.3.
Step 3: Exam & Pre-Med
10.3.1.
Exam Vet
10.3.2.
Entering Weight, Age, TPR
10.3.3.
Animal Behavior Tags
10.3.4.
SOAP
10.3.4.1.
Short Exam
10.3.4.2.
Long Exam
10.3.4.3.
Auto-Triggered Medical Tags With Notes
10.3.4.4.
Internal Medical Notes (Manually Written)
10.3.5.
High Risk Waivers
10.3.6.
Declining Surgery
10.3.7.
Drawing & Giving the Pre-Med
10.3.8.
Kenneling
10.4.
Step 4A: Surgical Flow
10.4.1.
Selecting Patients for Surgery
10.4.2.
Drawing Induction Drugs (Drug Draw Screen)
10.4.2.1.
ASNA Anesthetic Protocols
10.4.3.
Surgery (Surgical Screen)
10.4.4.
Prescriptions (Bulk Printing Labels)
10.4.4.1.
Buoy & Lizzie’s Law
10.4.4.2.
Prescription Consult
10.4.4.3.
Logging Controlled Prescriptions
10.4.5.
Patient Flow How Tos
10.4.5.1.
Creating Medical Notes (Short Tags)
10.4.5.2.
Missing Animal(s) in PF
10.4.5.3.
Adding Other Controlled Substances to Patient Flow
10.4.5.4.
Automations, What Are They?
10.4.5.5.
Using PF with Paper Drug Logs (“Hybrid Version”)
10.4.6.
Occasional Situations
10.4.6.1.
Documenting Deaths
10.4.6.2.
Rechecks in Patient Flow
10.4.6.3.
High Risk Waiver Bulk Processing
10.4.6.4.
Holding Overnight
10.4.6.4.1.
Surgery Performed, Holding Overnight
10.4.6.4.2.
Surgery not performed, drugs drawn, holding overnight
10.4.6.4.3.
Surgery not performed, drugs not drawn, holding overnight
10.4.7.
Rare Situations
10.4.7.1.
AM Tasks
10.5.
Step 4B: Wellness Flow
10.5.1.
Non-Anesthetic (Wellness) Flow
10.5.1.1.
Changing from Non-Anesthetic to Anesthetic
10.6.
Step 5: Check Out (Daily Task)
10.6.1.
Understanding Anesthetic vs. Non Anesthetic
10.6.2.
Staggard Pickups With AutoTexting
10.6.3.
Aftercare Documents (Take Home Paperwork)
10.6.3.1.
Printing
10.6.3.2.
Texting
10.6.3.3.
Emailing
10.6.3.4.
Ensuring the Foster Gets the Paperwork
10.6.3.5.
Aftercare Documents in the VCP
10.6.3.6.
QR Codes & Aftercare Video
10.6.4.
Collecting Payment From Public Clients
10.6.5.
Invoicing & Payments Volume Clients
10.6.6.
Microchip Auto Registration
10.6.7.
Healing Email
10.6.8.
Phased Out Tools
10.6.8.1.
Checkout Quick Entry
10.6.8.2.
Old Checkout
10.7.
Step 6: Closing the Drug Log (Daily Task)
10.7.1.
Editing the Drug Log
10.7.1.1.
Appending a Note to the Drug Log
10.7.2.
Where Does the Drug Log Save?
10.7.3.
Uncommon Issues
10.7.3.1.
Drug Logging Issues
10.7.3.2.
Drug Log Printing (Not Common)
11.
What To Do At The End of Your Day
12.
How to Discount Things
13.
Templates
13.1.
Merge Fields Master List
13.2.
HQ’s Surgical Consent Form Template
13.3.
HQ’s Wellness & Vaccine Consent Template
13.4.
HQ’s Visit Summary & Post Op Template
13.5.
HQ’s Vaccine Clinic Visit Summary Template
13.6.
HQ’s Surgical High Risk Waiver Template
13.7.
Miscellaneous Templates
13.8.
Adding Custom Fields to a Template
13.9.
Service Estimates
13.10.
Template Troubleshooting
14.
Volume Client Portal
14.1.
Setting Up the VCP
14.1.1.
VCP Setup – New Account
14.1.2.
VCP Setup – Connect Account for Multi-Clinic
14.2.
Features of the VCP
14.3.
VCP Login Help
14.4.
Managing VCP Users
15.
Integrations
15.1.
Idexx Tests
15.2.
Tests (Non-Idexx)
15.3.
Microchips
15.3.1.
Petstablished Microchips
15.3.2.
24PetWatch Microchips
16.
Client Management
16.1.
Understanding Client Types
16.2.
Merging Clients or Animals
16.2.1.
Merging Clients
16.2.2.
Merging Animals
16.3.
Changing Owners
16.4.
Setting Up Volume Clients
16.5.
Volume Client Owners
16.5.1.
Communicating with Volume Client Owners
16.6.
Client Tags
16.6.1.
Animal Caution
16.6.1.1.
Animal Behavior Tags
16.7.
Vaulting a Card
16.8.
Uploading Documents to a Client File
16.9.
Communication Logs
17.
Communications
17.1.
Appointment Confirmations
17.1.1.
Spay/Neuter Appt Confirmation Example
17.1.2.
Wellness Appt Confirmation Example
17.1.3.
Recheck Appt Confirmation Example
17.2.
Appointment Reminders
17.2.1.
Spay/Neuter Appt Reminder Example
17.2.2.
Wellness Appt Reminder Example
17.2.3.
Recheck Appt Reminder Example
17.3.
Customizing Confirmations and Reminders
17.3.1.
Turning On/Off Reminders
17.4.
Aftercare
17.4.1.
Take Home Paperwork
17.4.2.
The Healing Email
17.5.
The Medical Record
17.5.1.
Providing Copies of Medical Records
17.5.2.
Rabies Certificates
17.6.
Item Reminders
17.6.1.
Vaccine Reminders
17.7.
Texting
17.7.1.
Where do you see and send text messages
17.7.2.
Checkin Curbside Using Texting
17.7.3.
Setting Up Texting
17.7.4.
Cost Benefit Analysis for Texting
17.8.
HQ Chat
17.9.
Other Common Communication Situations
17.9.1.
Sending Announcements to Clients
18.
Accounting
18.1.
Accounting Public
18.2.
Accounting Volume
18.2.1.
Bill Volume Clients
18.2.2.
Apply Payment for Volume Client
18.2.2.1.
Owner/Caretaker Payment on Volume Appointment
18.2.3.
Adding & Deleting Items from VC Invoices
18.2.4.
AR Status & Resending Invoices
18.3.
Item Sales
18.4.
Subsidies
18.4.1.
Troubleshooting Subsidies
18.5.
Deposits
18.5.1.
Deposits on Internal Appointments
18.5.2.
Deposits on Online Appointments
18.5.3.
Managing Deposits
18.5.3.1.
Linking Unmatched Deposits
18.5.4.
Volume Client Deposits
18.5.5.
Taking a Deposit on a Vaulted Card
18.6.
Credit Cards
18.6.1.
How Credit Card Processing Works In HQ
18.6.2.
Batching Out
18.6.3.
Signing Up for Credit Card Processing
18.6.4.
Credit Card Via Machine
18.6.5.
Credit Card Processing Online
18.6.6.
Credit Card Troubleshooting
18.6.7.
Common Credit Card Decline Codes and Reasons
18.6.8.
Loss Prevention & Chargebacks
18.7.
Client Credits
18.8.
Write-Offs
18.9.
Donations
18.9.1.
Manual Donation Attached to Appointment
18.9.1.1.
Converting Deposits into Donations
18.9.2.
Manual Donation Not Attached to Appointment
18.9.3.
Donation & Goal Widgets
18.10.
Refunds
18.10.1.
Never Process Transactions in MX Merchant First!
18.11.
Accounting Tools
18.12.
Reconciliation
18.13.
Financial Reports
18.13.1.
Reconciling
18.13.2.
Matching bank deposits to MX Merchant
18.13.3.
Financial Export Per Vet
18.14.
Deleted Payment Log
18.15.
Taxable Sales
18.16.
Tax Setup & Exempts
18.17.
E-Pay & Card Vaulting
18.17.1.
Card Vaulting
18.17.2.
Troubleshooting E-Pay
18.18.
No Prices on Paperwork
19.
Reports
19.1.
Patient Metrics-Summary
19.2.
Patient Metrics- Details
19.3.
Patient Metrics- Master Report
19.4.
Patient Metrics- Microchip Export
19.5.
Service Metrics
19.6.
Item Prep
19.7.
Volume Client Metrics
19.8.
Geographic Metrics
19.9.
Executive Director Metrics
19.10.
Partnership Metrics
19.11.
No Shows
19.12.
Drug Log
19.13.
Donations Metrics
19.14.
Death
19.15.
Rabies Export
19.16.
Recheck
19.17.
Subsidies Summary
19.17.1.
Subsidies History
19.18.
Appointment Scheduling Report
19.19.
Priority Appointment Metrics
19.20.
Custom Reports
19.20.1.
Cool Custom Reports
19.21.
Tracking Colonies
20.
Change / Audit Logs
21.
HQ Administration
21.1.
Data Migration
21.1.1.
Checklist for Migrating Data
21.2.
Subscription
21.3.
Multi-Clinic (More Than One Profile)
21.4.
Canceling HQ
21.5.
Terms of Service
21.6.
Privacy Policy
21.7.
Security
22.
HQ Settings
22.1.
Clinic Profile
22.1.1.
Breeds
22.2.
Users
22.2.1.
User Role Permissions
22.2.2.
Don’t Use Generic Logins
22.2.3.
User Login Troubleshooting
22.3.
Vets
22.4.
Services & Products
22.4.1.
Updating Prices
22.5.
Packages
22.6.
Custom Fields
22.6.1.
Converting Custom Fields to Medical Notes
22.7.
Clinic Tags
22.8.
Vaccine Setup
22.8.1.
Non-Rabies Vaccines
22.9.
Idexx Setup
22.9.1.
Idexx Troubleshooting
22.10.
Divvy Setup
22.11.
Patient Flow Setup
22.11.1.
Drug Chart / Protocol Setup
22.11.2.
Setup and Manage Controlled Substances
22.11.3.
Automation Setup for Patient Flow
22.11.4.
Enabling Patient Flow
22.12.
Medical Notes Setup
22.12.1.
Auto Included in Setup
22.13.
High Risk Waiver Setup
22.14.
Prescription Labels
22.14.1.
Dymo Set Up
22.14.1.1.
Dymo Troubleshooting
22.15.
Microchip Preferences
22.16.
Capacity Management
22.17.
Wellness Settings
22.17.1.
Appointment Types
22.17.2.
Rooms
22.17.3.
Anesthetic or Mixed Service Wellness Considerations
22.18.
Templates Settings
22.19.
E-Appointments
22.19.1.
Priority Scheduling Setup
22.19.2.
Adding E-appointments to Your Website
22.20.
E-Payments
22.20.1.
Customizing E-Payment Email
22.20.2.
Credit Card Machine Setup
22.21.
Mobile Location Settings
22.22.
Confirmations and Reminders
22.23.
Medical Records Request
22.24.
Email Attachments
22.25.
Call & Text Add On
22.25.1.
Estimating Texting Costs
22.26.
e-Lobby
22.27.
Invoices
22.28.
Donations
22.29.
Funding Partnerships
22.30.
Subsidy Settings
22.30.1.
Employee Discounts
22.30.2.
Two Subsidies / One Item
22.30.3.
Sliding Scale Discounts
22.31.
Grantors
22.32.
VC Custom Pricing
22.33.
Tax Info
22.34.
QuickBooks
22.35.
Chat Settings
22.36.
OneLink E-Appointments (Multi-Clinic Only)
22.37.
VCP Settings
22.38.
Inventory
23.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
23.1.
Awesome Vaccine Clinics
23.1.1.
Setting Vaccine Clinic Schedule in HQ
23.1.2.
Pre-Clinic
23.1.2.1.
Curbside is Best
23.1.2.2.
How Many Can You Do?
23.1.2.3.
The Team
23.1.2.4.
Decide on Services
23.1.2.5.
Open Scheduler
23.1.2.6.
Approve Sign-Ups
23.1.2.7.
Forms
23.1.2.8.
Prepayments
23.1.3.
Fear-Free Animal Handling
24.
HQ Related
24.1.
All About HQ
24.1.1.
Our Story
24.1.1.1.
Documents
24.1.2.
The HQ Manifesto
24.1.3.
The Library
24.1.3.1.
Case Studies
24.1.3.2.
Guidelines
24.1.4.
Training Videos
24.1.5.
Community
24.1.6.
What To Do When HQ is Down
24.1.6.1.
The Vault
25.
HQ Help & Training
25.1.
Community Support
25.2.
Quizzes
Download as PDF
10.2.3.4.
Check In Via E-Lobby
10.2.3.3.
Car Side Script (PAASS)
10.2.3.5.
Taking Payment
10.2.3.3.
Car Side Script (PAASS)
10.2.3.5.
Taking Payment