What's New

We’re always adding to the HotDoc platform to improve the experience for both practices and patients.

Customisable email reminders

Easily tailor your email reminders with up to 1280 characters. Edit the email and SMS message, adjust active practitioners and customise the appointment type or cancellation settings.

Manage reminders for inactive patients

You now have the option to not send appointment reminders to inactive patients, by checking a box in your dashboard.

Find out who registered for MyMedicare

You can now filter patients based on their MyMedicare Registration Status and send broadcasts to patients who haven’t registered yet.

More bookings with Google’s ‘Book online’ button

Google has introduced a new feature that lets patients book appointments right from your Google Business Profile and Google Maps.

GP performance report in the Sidebar

GPs can easily keep an eye on their earnings, track how many new patients they’re bringing in, and check out Quick Consults & Telehealth on Demand stats to make even better decisions.

Set clear expectations with customisable T&Cs for Quick Consults

Outline exactly what patients can expect and request to reduce liability with personalised disclaimers for all Quick Consults request types.

Personalise your PDF Forms

Add your practice’s details to your form’s header and footer to give them a personal touch.

See a practitioner’s week view in the Availability Calendar

Have a simple and easy overview of your practitioner’s sessions per week by viewing this in the Availability Calendar.

Download insights from individual Inform Activation campaigns

Creating lists of patients who’ve engaged with Inform Activation campaigns is super easy now you can export a CSV for a specific campaign. Just choose and select the filters you want to export and click the download button.

Export Form submissions by date range

You can now use the date filter to search for form submissions for your preferred date range. Saving you that little bit of extra time to not having to do this manually in your spreadsheet.

Enable ‘on the day’ appointment settings

Best Practice users now have access to a new setting in your Dashboard that allows appointments marked as ‘On the day’ in Best Practice to be booked online through HotDoc, providing a more convenient patient experience and reducing incoming calls.

Quick Consults invoicing, now much easier

This one’s for Medical Director (Pracsoft) users! Streamline your invoicing by automatically creating and receipting invoices for Quick Consult requests into Pracsoft. We’ll show if an invoice can automatically be created to reduce the chance of missing one.

GPs can save time with this new hack

Keeping patient files accurate is so much easier now GPs can seamlessly transfer Quick Consult request details with our new copy-and-paste solution in the HotDoc Sidebar.

More bookings with promotional settings

To promote doctors’ availability for new Quick Consults request types, patients in their care team will receive a push notification through the HotDoc app highlighting this new service.

Ciao failed payments with pre-authorisation

Simply put a temporary hold of the appointment cost on the patient’s card to ensure the payment gets collected after the consult. Practices using this see a 99.98% success rate with collecting funds without it impacting their bookings!

Updates to the Recall Activity Log

We’ve listened to your feedback about wanting more details in your Recall Activity Log and we are excited to share that we’ve done just that! You can now view more details around the progress of your patients Recall activity within your HotDoc Dashboard including tracking changes to the recall sequence (who did what, when), see why a recall didn’t send to a patient, appointment status visibility (see if your patients attended their appointment or not), view upcoming appointments (synced from the recall table) and a more detailed activity feed for Results correspondence (including what changes were made to the result). 

Direct to Practitioner Payouts for Quick Consults is Now Available!

Exciting times! You can now directly payout practitioners for their completed Quick Consults.

Quick Consults is here!

Patient scripts and referrals are sent directly to your doctor’s computer, saving your team valuable admin time.

Doctors can now restrict their online bookings to existing patients.

Plus, it’s customisable per practitioner and based on when they last saw the patient!

Bulk Billing consent form update

We’ve updated our feature to ensure it’s compliant with the new Medicare benefit form approved by Services Australia for Telehealth bulk billing

Digital MyMedicare patient registration form

We’ve digitised the MyMedicare patient registration form and created a MyMedicare Broadcast template, both of which are now available in your HotDoc Dashboard

Telehealth Bulk Billing consent feature

Our latest feature streamlines written consent for all Telehealth bulk billed appointments, including those booked via HotDoc or through your practice.

Direct to Practitioner Payouts for Payments

Easily set up practitioners to receive payments directly to their own accounts.

More customisable Reminders settings

To make the Reminder settings more user-friendly, we redesigned the layout with more options to edit and update your appointment reminders.

Enrol patients at your practice for MyMedicare

If your practice has registered for MyMedicare’s Voluntary Patient Registration model, you can start informing your patients and capture their interest in registering at your practice.

Easily get telehealth video bulk billing consent

Practitioners can now select item numbers to claim and prompt patients for their bulk billing consent during video consults. When accepted, it automatically writes back to the Practice Software.

Never miss a message in your Dashboard again

Forgot the details of a feature update? Go back in time and scroll through recent releases, improvements, and tips by clicking the Messages button at the top right corner of your Dashboard.

Slash your to-do list on the Recalls summary page

Easily access Recalls information, check their progress, and see an actionable summary of tasks to complete on the brand new Recalls summary page.

Exempt bulk billed patients from adding card details

Streamline the patient journey by exempting certain patients who are usually bulk billed from adding their payment method online.

Search by the patient’s name for Reminders

You can now search by the patient’s name on the Future Reminders, Unsent Reminders and History pages to see if the reminder has been sent/not sent and check the status of this reminder.

Push notifications for practice booked payments

Practice booked payment requests will convert to more completed transactions now that we send a push notification in addition to SMS and email.

Need help?

Visit support.hotdoc.com.au or email [email protected].