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4 Steps to Creating your Procedure Manual in Google Docs

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Looking to create your own Procedure Manual?

In my last article, A "Clickable" Procedure Manual,  I showed you how a clickable manual could be used in your office.  This guide will show you how you can make a procedure manual from scratch using Google Documents.
It is a fairly simple (but lengthy) process and you will need to be familiar with my previous Guide on Making a Guide on Google Docs before proceeding.
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How to Properly Implement Officemate's Lens Loader

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The VSP Interface in Officemate has come a long way from when I implemented it three years ago. You can find the latest VSP Interface checklist on page 483 of Officemate Administration v12.0.3 Guide. The newest implementation method provided by Officemate is a module called the VSP Setup Assistant and it walks you through each step to get VSP Interface up and running.
If you look at the checklist, lens setup is 70% of the VSP Setup Assistant, so using Lens Loader properly is essential to proper VSP Interface implementation. The VSP Setup Assistant is a stripped-down, guided version of properly setup your lenses in Officemate. I want to show you how to properly use the actual Lens Loader feature. How Does Lens Loader Work?The “Lens Loader” feature provided by Officemate is a tool that imports uniformly-named lenses directly from Eyefinity into your database. When you 1) select a lens to import, it 2) filters through the prices set in your 3rd Party Attributes, and 3) creates lens combina…
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A "Clickable" Procedure Manual

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***Update April 18,2016*** Learn how to make your own! A new post on 4 Steps to Creating your Procedure Manual in Google Docs

I recently read an article by Neil B. Gailmard, OD on Your Office Procedure Manual (2010) which has a lot of good tips on:
Why you should have a procedure manual How to Start a Manual What to Exclude What you might Include
However, I did not agree with the line in his last paragraph where he states that, “every office is so different that I strongly recommend that you write your own from scratch.”  It’s true, every office has
their own unique workflow- but every office shares the ability to categorize duties by either patient workflow and/or department.
Think about all the duties in your practice.  They can either involve interaction with a patient or a specialized duty performed by a department in your practice.  Although these duties may coincide in both patient workflow and department, categorizing them in this manner will force you to see your staffs' daily rou…
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