Referring practice staff can sign in to rVetLink and change or reset the rVetLink practice password.

Sign-in and access

To make sure that referrals have all necessary information, referring veterinarians complete all sections of the  Refer Patient screen.

Refer a patient

To increase transparency, referring veterinarians can give clients the approximate cost when they refer patients to a specialty or emergency practice.

Estimates for specialty and emergency services

Referring veterinarians can open all the referrals that you and other staff saved in rVetLink and sent to a  practice.

Monitor patient referrals

Monitor the status of referred patients to make sure you know important information as soon as possible.

Monitor referred patients

You can make changes to contact information for your practice, configure search results, and configure notification settings.

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A specialty or emergency practice provides access to  rVetLink for practices of  referring veterinarians.

About rVetLink access

Before you can use rVetLink, you must have access to the welcome letter from the specialty or emergency practice, sign in to rVetLink, and change the temporary password.

Sign in to rVetLink for the first time

Before you can use rVetLink, you must sign in.

Sign in to rVetLink

If you cannot remember your  username, rVetLink can send you an email that includes your username.

Get the rVetLink username for your practice

If you cannot remember your rVetLink password, select  Password Help? on the sign-in screen to reset the password.

Reset the rVetLink password for your practice

If necessary for security, you can change the    practice password. For example, to prevent   access that is not approved, change the password when a staff member permanently stops employment.

Change the password for your practice

To refer a patient to a specialty or emergency practice, you must do the necessary steps.

General steps to refer a patient

Veterinarians can use the Refer Patient screen to refer patients to a specialty or emergency practice. The Referral Details section of the screen has information about the reason for the referral and applicable service or doctor for the patient.

Refer Patient screen: Referral Details section

Veterinarians can use the Refer Patient screen to refer patients to a specialty or emergency practice. The Referring Veterinarian Information section of the screen has information about the referring veterinarian and their hospital.

Refer Patient screen: Referring Veterinarian Information section

Veterinarians can use the Refer Patient screen to refer patients to a specialty or emergency practice. The Client Information section of the screen has information about the client and the client contact record.

Refer Patient screen: Client Information section

Veterinarians can use the Refer Patient screen to refer patients to a specialty or emergency practice. The Patient Information and Patient Files  sections of the screen have information about the patient and their medical records.

Refer Patient screen: Patient Information and Patient Files sections

Veterinarians can use the Refer Patient screen to refer patients to a specialty or emergency practice. The Review and Complete section of the screen shows all the referral information that you entered in previous sections of the screen.

Refer Patient screen: Review & Complete section

Use the Refer Patient screen to refer patients to a practice. This screen records all necessary information for a referral.

Use the Patient Files section to upload files to a referral. You can upload medical records, lab results, and diagnostic images.

Add a file to a referral

Referring veterinarians can use the Service Estimates screen to find the approximate cost of procedures that a specialty or emergency practice can do.

About the Service Estimates screen

Use the Service Estimates screen to show the approximate cost of a service from the specialty or emergency practice.

Show the approximate cost of a service

You can use the Patient Referrals screen to monitor, update, and remove referrals.

About the Patient Referrals screen

Use the Patient Referrals screen to monitor sent referrals.

Find sent referrals

Use the Patient Referrals screen to find referrals that veterinarians saved or sent on a specified date.

Find referrals by date

Use the Patient Referrals screen to find referrals that veterinarians saved or sent for a specific patient.

Find referrals for a patient

After you send a referral to a specialty or emergency practice, you can send new information about the applicable patient to the practice.

Update and send a referral again

After you send a referral to a specialty or emergency practice, you can upload medical records, lab results, and diagnostic images for the applicable patient.

Add patient files to a sent referral

If you started to make a patient referral, but a referral  is not necessary, you can  remove a saved referral.

Remove a referral

You can  export referral information for data review.

Export referral data

Veterinarians use the Patient Chart screen to monitor information about patients that they referred to a specialty or emergency practice.

About the Patient Chart screen

Use the Patient Chart screen to monitor information about patients that they referred to a specialty or emergency practice.

The Patient Chart screen (walkthrough)

The Notifications section of the  Patient Chart screen shows updates about the patient that you received from the specialty or emergency practice.

The Notifications section of the Patient Chart screen

Use the Patient Chart screen to find a patient and see their information.

Find a patient

Use the Patient Chart screen to find patients with new medical information.

Find patients with new information

The Patient Chart screen shows information about a patient and the related client. Use the Patient Chart button in the Client Information section to  download the patient chart.

Download a patient chart

Use the Refer Patient button in the Patient Information section to refer a patient to a specialty or emergency practice again.

Refer a patient again

Use the Lab button in the Laboratory section to  download a laboratory result for the patient.

Download a laboratory result

Use the Medical Notes section to show and download  all available medical notes for the patient. Examples of medical notes are clinical summaries, referral summaries, and discharge instructions.

Download medical notes

Use the Resend button in the Notifications section to send the notification again to the same email address or fax number.

Send a notification again

Use the Digital Images section to show   all available digital images for a patient.

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