Our iPad app is designed for Form filling and Check-in in your clinic, when the patient arrives for their appointment. Publishing Forms to the web gives them a unique URL. This allows filling by your patients, on their own device, at any time prior to their appointment.
What it looks like
Here's what it looks like to fill out a Form on the iPad:
And here's the same Form on the web, accessed via its URL:
Differences
On the iPad app, an appointment is identified for a patient before the Form is started. On the web, no appointment or patient identifier is known prior to filling. This means that when the Forms are filled, we need to handle them differently.
| App Forms | Web Forms |
Pre-populates from patient record | ✅ | - |
Supports selfies | ✅ | - |
Flows through the Finger-Ink Portal Inbox | ✅ | ✅ |
Always knows the right patient to update | ✅ | ☝️ has to try and match after filling |
Always processes automatically | ✅ | ☝️ most of the time |
Marks appointment as arrived in Cliniko | ✅ | - |
Supports all other Form features | ✅ | ✅ |
Works on most desktops, laptops & phones | - | ✅ |
Differences will narrow over time
We're working to close the gap between Forms on the iPad and Forms on the web. Watch this space.