Overview
A clinic that lives on courses of sessions
Clinics offering repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation, and related therapies work differently from an outpatient clinic. A patient is assessed, starts a course of sessions over several weeks, and is reviewed along the way. The front desk's job is mostly scheduling: a fixed daily slot for each patient, a chair or a device that cannot be double-booked, and a patient who has to be chased the moment they miss.
In ClinicNP each session is an appointment that becomes a visit in one keystroke when the patient arrives, so the patient's record shows the whole course as a list of visits with their dates in Bikram Sambat. Session notes, the protocol used, and anything the clinician wants recorded go in the visit's findings as free text, and assessment forms or scale scores can be attached to the visit as files. ClinicNP does not count down a course automatically, does not score rating scales, and does not connect to the stimulation device; those stay with the clinician and the device.
The loss a course-based clinic fears most is the patient who stops coming at session eight. ClinicNP's appointment book shows who was booked and which of them has arrived, and the new-versus-returning report shows patients who have not come back, so a drop-out is visible within the day rather than at month end.
Around the sessions sit the same things as any clinic: psychiatrist or neurologist consultations billed as services, medication dispensed by batch and expiry if the clinic runs a counter, doctor shares calculated on every billed line, and a day close that matches the cash drawer.
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