Guides / Basic Staff Walkthrough

Locums in CHIME

If one of your Staff Physicians is away, sometimes they will have coverage. Below we outline how to account for this in CHIME.

Scenario 1: Renaming the Clinician

Appropriate for:

  • Locums who will be seeing patients booked into the MRP’s schedule in the EMR.

Not Appropriate for:

  • Locums who will have patients booked into their own EMR schedule

Instructions:

  1. Click the MRP’s name in on the Dashboard

  2. Replace it with the locum’s name

  3. Remember to change it back when the locum is done.

Scenario 2: Redirecting the Queue

Appropriate for:

  • Locums who will have patients booked into their own schedule

Instructions:

  1. Please reach out to support@chimeclinic.com and provide the following information:

    • Subject: Adding a Locum at [your clinic name]

    • Body should include:

      • Name of MRP

      • Name of Locum (as it appears in your EMR)

      • Start date of coverage