Creating message templates

🎞️ View video tutorial: Creating message templates

You can create and use message templates to automate and standardize your communications. You can use message templates for internal messages, patient portal messages and to be automatically sent via a pathway post action (see Configuring transitions for your Pathways). For example, you can create a template for the common message of sending reminders to an MOA about a patient follow-up appointment.

You can add patient data and other data variables to your message templates so that when you are using it, information from the patient’s chart, as well as clinic and provider details, can automatically pull into your message.

⚠️ Important: Only users with the Templates : Messages permission can create or edit message templates. However, anyone can use them.

Once you create message templates, all users can use them for messages and quick messages. For more information, see:

• Using message templates

• Using message templates as a Quick Message for incoming faxes and documents

Steps

1. From the main menu, click Settings > Templates. The Template Settings window displays.

2. Click Message. A list of current message templates appears.

💡 Tip: To delete an existing message template, click the x to the right of its name.

3. To add a new template, click Add Template.

The New Message Template window appears.

4. Enter your message template details using the following table as reference.

Field	Description
Template Name	Enter a descriptive name for your template. This name appears under Message Templates and in other areas within the CHR where you can use this template, such as the inbox.
Message Title	Enter a title for your message.
Message Body	Enter the message body.
Insert Variable	Click to add instant and patient data variables to your message. For more information, see Creating instant variables and Variables for use in message templates.
Formatting toolbar	Click to format your text. The options are: bold italicize strikethrough font color bullet-style list numbered list insert table outdent text indent text left-align text center-align text right-align text justify-align text
Set Quick Action	(optional) Click to assign a default recipient for the message. a. Under Enable, select Yes. b. Give your quick action a descriptive name. c. Select a default recipient from the list. 📌 Note: You can add your primary assistant under your profile. See Modifying your user preferences. 💡 Tips: If you want to send the message to the recipient with a single click, select Skip message dialog. If selected, when you use a quick action, the message is sent to the recipient without having to additionally click Submit. After you use a Quick Action message template, you can disable the Alert window by selecting the Do not show this dialog again option.

5. Click Save. The message template is created and appears in the list.

Updated June 22, 2022