Step by step
See a patient
Call the next patient, write the notes and diagnoses, order tests, prescribe, then sign and finish so the patient moves on.
The consultation is one page: the patient’s allergies and cover at the top, their earlier visits beside your notes, the tests you order and the medicines you prescribe. Sign and finish signs the notes and sends the patient to the lab, the pharmacy or billing, whichever comes next.
Call the next patient
On My patients, tap Call next (or press Space). Kila calls emergencies first, then the longest wait, and shows the number on the waiting-room screen. To call someone in particular, tap Call on their line under Waiting for a clinician: a patient sent to you is marked Yours.
Read the banner and the history
The consultation opens with the patient’s banner: who pays, their Allergies in red, their conditions and the reason from triage. Earlier visits sits beside the notes (The first visit on file. for a new patient), and the vital signs from triage show with their flags, such as Temperature high.
Write the notes
Under Consultation (SOAP): the Presenting complaint and History, the Examination, then your Assessment.
Add the diagnoses
Under Diagnoses (ICD-10), search by words or code (malaria, J06, pneumonia) and tap the one you mean, such as B54 Malaria, unspecified. Mark it Provisional or Final. Your favourite diagnoses (★) are one tap; Type one adds a diagnosis Kila’s list does not have.
Steps 3 to 5. Write the plan and save
Write the Plan, and a Review on date if the patient should come back. Tap Save consultation (or press Ctrl+S).
Order tests
Under Tests and procedures, tap an order set to order a whole work-up, such as Fever work-up (4): full blood count, malaria rapid test, urinalysis and salmonella typhi antigen. Your favourite tests (★) order one at a time, and Add orders any lab test, scan or procedure. Each test shows where it is: Ordered, Sample taken, Result entered, then Released.
Prescribe
Under Prescriptions, tap Prescribe and search the medicine. Set the Dose, the Unit, the Route, How often and the Days: Kila works out the Quantity for tablets and capsules, such as Worked out: 18. Add Instructions if needed, then tap Prescribe.
The directions go on the medicine’s label at the pharmacy. Your favourite medicines (★) prescribe your usual dose in one tap.
Sign and finish
Tap Sign and finish (or press Ctrl+Enter). Kila says where the patient goes next, such as The patient goes to at the lab (4 tests pending). Leave Sign the notes now, or choose Sign later, add a Review on date if you had not, and tap Finish.
A review date becomes a follow-up the front desk calls. When the lab releases the results, they show on My patients under Results to see, a critical one marked Critical: open the visit from there to read them and finish.
The patient is allergic to what you prescribe
Link to this section: The patient is allergic to what you prescribeKila compares each medicine with the allergies on the patient’s file and stops a match:
Tap Change and choose another medicine. If it is safe to give, write Why it is safe to give and tap Prescribe anyway.
You cannot open a patient’s notes
Link to this section: You cannot open a patient’s notesClinicians read the patients they are seeing, or saw in the last 90 days. In an emergency, tap Emergency access and give your reason: see Clinical privacy.
Good to know
Send to lab, Send to pharmacy and Send to billing at the top move the patient without finishing. Signed notes are locked: after that you add an addendum below them, and Kila keeps every version.
- Triage a patient: before the consultation.
- Enter and release lab results: what happens to the tests you order.
- Doctor: the clinician’s day.
Next: the lab takes the samples and releases the results.