Managing Your Practice > Tracking Patients
Stage tracking serves two primary purposes:
Enables you to track patients as they follow the stages of consultation through the completion of surgery. This is particularly useful for multi-stage procedures.
Provides a marketing tool to track patients who have had consultations but have not scheduled surgery.
WinOMS enables you to track multiple sets of stages for a patient who can be having different types of procedures performed at the same time. In addition, hospital information can be entered for each set of stages.
Before you can add a stage group, you must create stage categories and stage codes. See Adding Stage Groups and Stage Details for more information.