What should you select after you've completed the referral appointment scheduling process?

After completing the referral appointment scheduling process, navigating to the Future tab is crucial for tracking and managing upcoming appointments effectively. The Future tab allows healthcare providers to view and organize scheduled referrals, making it easier to monitor upcoming patient visits, follow-ups, and any necessary actions related to those appointments. This step ensures that all relevant information about the scheduled referrals is centralized and accessible, facilitating better coordination and communication within the care team and with the patient.

Updating the patient’s chart, logging out of the system, or sending a reminder to the patient are also important actions, but they typically occur at different stages of the referral process or have different priorities. For instance, updating the chart may be done before scheduling the appointment to ensure all pertinent information is current. Log out is related to security and is typically done after all necessary tasks are completed, and reminders to patients are usually sent as part of follow-up procedures rather than immediately after scheduling. Thus, navigating to the Future tab is the most fitting action to take next after scheduling a referral appointment.