How do I send an Email to all of my patients?

Problem: 

You want to send an email to all of your patients but can't find how to do this in OfficePro. 

Background:

The OfficePro suite is designed for practice management and not really marketing. So all emails that OfficePro sends to your patients are patient-specific. There is no function for sending an email to all of your patients.  But of course, you can still send emails to your patients using your email client or marketing service such as Constant Contact. OfficePro can provide you with a list of email addresses of your patients for sending.  

Solution:

Option 1

To access a list of email addresses in OfficePro you can do one of the following. On the OfficePro Admin Home page on the left hand column. You will see an email box. If you click on the bar, the following email options will appear: 

If you click the view Email List option from the email menu you will get a list of all of your patient's email addresses. 

You can then click the Email All Patients link at the top right. If you do not have very many addresses the link will trigger your browser to open the default mail client with the email addresses already populated into the BCC field of the email draft. 

If you have a large number of emails on file then the system will prompt you with a selection box you can use to copy and paste all of the emails on file into the BCC box of a new email in your email client. 

Option 2

You can also use the Export Patient function to export a CSV of all of your patients. Then simply filter the CSV using your favorite spreadsheet software (excel, numbers, sheets, etc...). This way you can come up with a targeted list for your email. 

For more on exporting the patient list see the following tutorial about the Add Ons, Export, and Logs tabs of the Admin General settings page. http://www.naturaesoft.com/configuration.html#AddOns  

NOTE: Always use the BCC box otherwise your patient's email addresses will be shared with the other recipients of the email. Ignoring this could lead to a HIPAA violation, so be very careful about emailing your patients.