Appointment Reminders – Canvas Medical

Introduction

Once a patient has been enrolled to receive emails and/or texts, they are now considered a verified contact. Being a verified contact, allows the patient to receive appointment reminders. Non-telehealth and Telehealth appointment reminders are sent a fixed number of days prior to the appointment. This fixed number of days is configurable in settings. Telehealth appointment reminders also include a second reminder that is sent approximately 45 minutes prior to a scheduled Telehealth appointment. Please view our Customize Telehealth Appointment Reminder for more details.

Key Objectives

You will learn how to change the fixed number of days for appointment reminders.
You will learn about appointment reminders for Telehealth patient.
You will see examples of text message and email that the patients receive.

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Tips & Tricks

Patients are given the option to confirm an appointment from the appointment reminder but are directed to call the office to cancel or reschedule.
Preferred badge serves as a visual reminder for end users but currently has no impact on where the reminder is sent.
Non-Telehealth appointment reminders will always send via text unless email is the ONLY point of contact that is verified. If both email and text are verified the appointment reminder will always default to text.
Telehealth appointment reminder will send via both email and text if both methods are verified.

Step by Step

Navigate to the triple line menu, located on the top left-hand side
Select Settings
Locate and select Organizations under Practice heading within Settings
Select the desired organization to open the Change Organization form
Scroll down to the Organization Settings
Locate the Appointment Reminders field
Edit to the number after "daysAhead": and or "hourOfDay": in the Value field
- Timezone for the appointment reminder setting will be the same as the environment
Select Save

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Appointment Reminders for Telehealth Visits

NOTE: Patients with verified contact information receive two automated reminders for their Telehealth visit. Please view our Customize Telehealth Appointment Reminder for more details.

Appointment Reminder: sent days prior to the appointment depending on what is documented in settings. Instructs the patient that they will receive additional information prior to their appointment

Virtual Exam Room Reminder: sent to the patient 45 minutes prior to the appointment that includes a reminder and link to download Telehealth application. A second link is provided to join the appointment with the provider.