Enable Care Coordinators to Schedule Appointments for Patients

Make the Intelligent Appointment Management console available to call center operators or care coordinators by adding a tab to the account page layout.

Available in: Lightning Experience

Available in: Enterprise and Unlimited Editions with Health Cloud


User Permissions Needed
To use Health Cloud Health Cloud Foundation permission set
  1. On a patient’s Person Account record page, click Setup icon and select Edit page.
  2. In the editor, select the tab area with Related and Details tabs, then click Add Tab.
  3. To rename the newly added tab, select the tab.
    1. Click the Tab Label field and select Custom.
    2. Give the tab a descriptive name, such as Make an Appointment, and click Done.
  4. With the new tab selected, drag Healthcare Appointment Scheduler from the Components panel and drop it on the tab.

    Schedule appointment console added to the account record page layout

    Now you can see the Healthcare Appointment Scheduler attributes.
  5. Review Search Panel Fields and Advanced Search Fields and remove any fields you don't need.
  6. Review Search Results Fields. These fields are shown in the provider’s card. Remove any unnecessary fields.
  7. If you don’t want to show provider badges, clear Show Provider Badge.
  8. Save your changes and click Activation..
  9. Select Assign as Org Default on the ORG DEFAULT tab, then click Next, Close, and Save.
    Account record page activation window
  10. Return to the Person Account record page.
  11. To display a patient's appointments, add a Service Appointments section to the Related List tab of the patient’s Person Account record page layout.
    1. On a patient’s Person Account record page, click Setup icon and select Edit object.
    2. Click Page Layouts, then click Person Account Layout.
    3. Click Related Lists in the palette.
    4. Drag Service Appointments from the palette into the Related Lists section of the canvas.
    5. In the Related List section, clear the New button.
    6. Click Save, then click Yes to overwrite.