If your practice is interested in segmenting your patient database in deeper granularity or organizing patient information in one place, your may be interested in adding custom fields to patient contact records.
Custom fields are a means for storing and representing contact data. Custom fields outline a patient's treatment journey and empower your team to keep track of important information in an organized way.
While your Dewy account came standard with a bunch of lead status and treatment tags to further segment your contacts into lists, you may want to employ custom fields to get even more granular than tags. Custom fields store data that is permanent and unique to each contact. For instance, some Dewy users
In order to Add Custom Fields to a Patient Contact Card in your Dewy account, you’ll need to navigate to the Patient Contact Database. In your Dewy account, locating your contact cards is an easy, two-step process. First, click on the Dewy logo (Located in the Top-Left Hand corner, on the blue rectangle) to navigate to your Overview and Main Menu then Click on Contacts
For more information, visit our in-depth article about Contact Cards and the Patient Activity Timeline.
These Custom Fields can contain dates, custom text inputs, radio buttons, and more input types. You may use this information in a multitude of ways. Three example reasons include:
An example Custom Field Name would be “Date of Birth. ”You would use the Field Type “Date” to ensure the formatting is uniform across your entire patient database.
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