Updates

Recent CareCru Updates

New Consent Forms + Pre-Fill Feature
Release Date:
April 16, 2025
Details:

Along with these forms, we are introducing Pre-Fill Forms, a powerful new feature designed to save time, enhance efficiency, and provide a more personalized experience for your patients.

With Pre-Fill Forms, you can pre-enter key values such as tooth & bridge number, operating dentist, and procedure type, which will automatically populate into the patient’s consent form before you send it. Once the shareable link is generated, your patients can receive a fully tailored form experience instantly!

Available Forms & Customizable Fields

We’re introducing both new consent forms and Pre-Fill Forms together to streamline workflows and enhance patient interactions.

Pre-Fill Forms:

🔹Crown    and Bridge Consent                 ✅Tooth and Bridge Number(s)
🔹Extraction    Consent                                 ✅Tooth Number(s)
🔹Final    Cementation Consent                ✅Operating Dentist
🔹Oral    Sedation Consent                          ✅Procedure, Operating Dentist
🔹Oral    Surgery Consent                            ✅Procedure, Operating Dentist
🔹Endodontic    Consent                              ✅Tooth Number(s)
🔹Cosmetic    Treatment                              ✅Procedure,  Operating Dentist 

Additional Consent Forms:

We're also adding these additional consent forms to enable more comprehensive patient communication:

🔹In-Office Whitening Consent
🔹Invisalign Consent
🔹Nitrous Oxide Consent

How to Access New Forms

Our newforms are easily accessible directly within Chat and in the Forms section for seamless patient communication.

📰Learn more about this new enhancement by clicking the article below:
🔹Pre-Fill Forms


Try out Pre-Fill Forms and explore our new Consent Forms today!

Smart Recare (Tracker Only): Read Follow-Up Date on Pending Appointments
Release Date:
February 14, 2025
Details:

We have enhanced our Smart Recare list for Tracker practices that rely on follow-up dates to manage their pending appointments.

Now, the Smart Recare list will read follow-up dates in addition to the original date (due date) on the pending appointment.

If there is a follow-up date set in the future, then this patient will not be listed in the Smart Recare, as the future follow-up date indicates they are not to be contacted until that time.

New Patient Welcome Automation
Release Date:
January 16, 2025
Details:

New Patient Welcome Automation, designed to enhance your practice's efficiency and improve patient experience.

📖 About the Feature
Donna's new feature will takes one less task off your team's plate by welcoming new patients and gathering their information for you.

  • Automatically Welcome New Patients: Donna will automatically detect new patient booked appointments and send them a personalized welcome message.
  • New Patient Intake Forms: Along with the welcome message, you have the option to send the patient a link to one of the Intake forms in CareCru via email and/or SMS, allowing them to complete it before their first appointment.
  • Family-Friendly: If the patient is booking for multiple family members, Donna will send one family-specific message including all booked appointments.
  • Calendar Integration: The patient can also add the appointment to their calendar allowing for easy future access.

⚙️ How It Works

  • Automatic Detection: When a new patient books their first appointment, we will automatically detect and tag them as a new patient based on their appointment and transaction history.
  • Customized Messaging: You can personalize the welcome message and use the CareCru form links to match your practice tone and requirements.
  • Automated Delivery: The welcome message and form link(s) are sent automatically to the patient via Email and/or SMS.
  • Learn More -->New Patient Welcome Automation

🤔 What’s in It for You?

  • Less Manual Work: No more sending manual emails or texts to new patients.
  • Improved Patient Experience: New patients feel welcomed and prepared before they even step into your clinic.
  • Increased Efficiency: Save time on admin work and ensure patients fill out their forms ahead of their visit.

Pre-confirmable Reminders (Tracker Only)
Release Date:
December 9, 2024
Details:

Pre-confirmable Reminders is a new feature designed to enhance your existing appointment confirmation workflow.

What Are Pre-confirmable Reminders?

Pre-confirmable Reminders allow patients to pre-confirm their appointments ahead of time via SMS or email, ensuring a smoother scheduling workflow.

When Will Donna Send a Pre-confirmable Reminder?

Pre-confirmable Reminders will be sent only if an appointment is not marked as Confirmed or Pre-confirmed.

How Do Patients Pre-confirm?

  • SMS: Patients can reply with “P” to pre-confirm their appointment
  • Email: Patients can simply click a Pre-confirm button

Impact on Other Reminder Types?

Pre-confirmed appointments will still receive Confirmable and Friendly Reminders based on your existing workflow and practice settings.

Settings and Preferences:

  • All your advanced reminder settings and touchpoint preferences remain unchanged
  • Patient contact preferences for SMS and email reminders continue to apply

Why It Matters:

  • Enhance patient communication
  • Reduce no-shows and last-minute scheduling issues
  • Streamline appointment management for your practice

Ready to Activate Pre-confirmable Reminders?

Anyone with an Owner role can set up this new workflow or you can contact our support team for guidance.​

Pre-confirmable Reminders Workflow Guide

Note: This release is available for all Tracker practices. Future PMS integration will follow.

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Online Scheduling: Gender Not Appending to Online Request
Resolved On:
July 17, 2024
Details:

When attempting to accept an online appointment request, the gender was not populating which forced the user to have to add it manually before being able to accept the appointment. This has now been resolved.

Linking Online Appt Request to Pending Appt does not Update Appt Status to Booked (Tracker)
Resolved On:
March 13, 2024
Details:

*For Tracker Practices Only

When linking an online appointment request to an existing pending appointment in Tracker, the appointment status was  not updating from Pending to Booked. Only the date/time of the pending appointment is being updated from the online appointment request. This is now resolved.

Admin Role Unable to Edit/Delete Admin or User role accounts
Resolved On:
March 13, 2024
Details:

Accounts set up with Admin user role access, should be able to edit and delete other accounts that are set as either Admin or User.
This function was no longer working, and has now been resolved.