Install and use an app

Apps are specialised clinical tools that run inside Digital Clinic. You install them for yourself: your colleagues choose their own.

Before you start

• If you can't find Apps in the sidebar, apps aren't part of your clinic's plan yet. Ask us.

Steps

1Find the app

In the sidebar, select Apps, then All apps. Select an app to see what it does and what it may access.

2Install it

Select Install. A window lists what the app will be able to do, for example read the patient you connect, or save a report you validate. Select Allow and install.

3Open a patient with it

Open the patient, select Apps and pick the app. It opens connected to that patient, so findings and reports land on the right animal.

You can also open an app from Mine in the app library, and connect a patient inside it.

4Validate the result

When you finish in the app, it shows you the result to review. Check it, edit the draft if needed, and select Validate & save. Some apps then offer documents to write from the result, such as a report or a letter to the owner: tick the ones you want.

What you've got now

The result is saved to the patient, and the documents you picked appear under the patient's documents when they are written.

Updates and uninstalling

When a new version is out, the app library shows Update next to the app. If the update asks for more access, you review it first, or keep your current version.

To remove an app, open its page in the app library and select Uninstall. Drafts and settings it kept for you are deleted. Documents it saved to patients stay in their records.