Lookout's referrals feature allows you to send quality referrals to your Allied Health network. Confidently share the most up-to-date client information easily through this safe and secure system, designed to protect privacy. The referrals feature also streamlines the referral acceptance process, making it easier for your Allied Health partners to focus more on delivering great care.

This article will show you how this feature works and how to use it.

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Referrals sent through this feature contain all the information a clinician or clinical administrator needs to accept or reject the referral. Each referral includes:

Here's an example of what it looks like:

Each referral is a unique web page that is accessed and protected by an unguessable permalink (e.g. https://careco.thelookoutapp.com/referrals/qoqpHnJV8DbhB8qLgeesy7Wt).

Once the receiving clinician or clinical administrator clicks on this permalink, they are prompted to request a one-time passcode to gain access:

This layer of security protects the private and confidential information being shared in the referral. Once requested, the one-time passcode is sent to their email and will allow them to open the referral:

To make a new referral press on New Referral in the Referrals section in Lookout. Simply fill in the form and you're done!

Your referral is automatically associated with a ticket that can be templated to support your organisation's workflow.

To preview the referral press on Open referral preview in the referral section of the ticket:

To protect your client's sensitive information, referrals can only be opened by Allied Health professionals you have authorised. You authorise Allied Health professionals by inviting them from your Marketplace, or by entering their name and email directly.

Here's how to invite an Allied Health professional from your Marketplace:

Here's how to invite an Allied Health professional manually using their name and email:

Invitations automatically expire after 30 days to prevent your client's sensitive information from living on in people's inboxes forever. Additionally, you can revoke an invitation at any time.

You can also see how many times a referral has been opened plus the last time it was opened:

No, all entries from "Home and Environment", "Goals", "Equipment and Devices", and "Relevant medical history" are included in the referral automatically. You can edit the Care Plan after you've created the referral and the referral will always show the most up-to-date Care Plan, including a timestamp of when it was last updated.

Yes, the person opening the referral can print or save the referral as a PDF to import it into their system.

We've designed the referral to be universally accessible. Referrals can be opened on any desktop or mobile device in their web browser (E.g. Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox). There's no need to install special software.

No, automatically having invitations expire after 30 days is the best way to protect your client's sensitive information. You can always invite the same Allied Health professional again if they need more time.

When you invite a Clinician from your Marketplace, the email they're using at the time they're invited is copied to the invitation to guarantee they are the authorised recipient. To update their email, you can revoke the existing invitation and invite the Clinician again.