Use the HIPPA compliant in-app messaging feature to communicate with your team internally.
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Quick Notes
Web Portal
Billiyo Caregiver App
Billiyo Clinical App
Quick Notes
This article discusses the new in-app messaging experience that is currently being rolled out.
- In-app messaging is HIPAA compliant.
- With in-app messaging feature in Billiyo you can message an individual employee, create a group chat with multiple employees and send a message to all employees within your agency at once.
Web Portal
To access the in-app messaging feature on the web portal, in the left menu navigate to:
Operation > Chat
Within this page you'll be able to:
Create and Send New Messages
To create a new message you can either click on the button and New Conversation or the button.
On the pop-up that appears, under the Conversation Type heading, select the type of message you'd like to create:
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Group
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Mass Send a message to all employees |
For the Individual and Group conversation types, upon clicking the button you'll be taken to a messaging screen where you can:
Type a message
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Send a document | |
Send a photo
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Send a video
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Send an audio recording
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Review message history
Once conversations have been created, they'll appear in a list view on the left side of the screen.
To read through a conversation, simply click on it. Doing so will open the conversation on the right side of the screen.
Take Action on Messages
As you're reviewing a conversation, you can respond and share content just as you did when creating the conversation.
For messages that you've sent and received, you can also:
Reply
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Edit
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Forward Share the message to another one of your chats |
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Delete
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Billiyo Caregiver App
Within the Billiyo Caregiver app, in-app messaging can be accessed in 2 locations:
Dashboard → Message | More → Message |
Within the message screen, caregivers can:
Create and Send New Messages
Within the message screen, caregivers can create new messages by touching on the button that appears in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Upon doing so, they'll be presented with the option to create a group message with multiple employees in it or an individual message to a single person.
If group message is chosen:
Select a group image
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Enter a group name | |
Select who is in the group
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Once the recipient(s) have been chosen, touching on the button will allow the caregiver to compose their message.
Add an attachment
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Type a message | |
Record a voice message
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View and Respond to Messages
When entering the message screen within the Billiyo Caregiver app, a list of all conversations will appear.
Any conversations that have a number indicator on them mean that there are unread messages.
To review a conversion and respond to any messages, touch on the conversation line.
Outside of the basic functions that were available when creating a new message, the caregiver will also be able to:
Copy message text
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Download
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Billiyo Clinical App
Within the Billiyo Clinical app, in-app messaging can be accessed by going to:
More > Message
Within the message screen, employees can:
Create and Send New Messages
Within the message screen, employees can create new messages by touching on the button that appears in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Upon doing so, they'll be presented with the option to create a group message with multiple employees in it or an individual message to a single person.
If group message is chosen:
Select a group image
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Enter a group name | |
Select who is in the group
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Once the recipient(s) have been chosen, touching on the button will allow the employee to compose their message.
Add an attachment
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Type a message | |
Record a voice message
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View and Respond to Messages
When entering the message screen within the Billiyo Clinical app, a list of all conversations will appear.
Any conversations that have a number indicator on them mean that there are unread messages.
To review a conversion and respond to any messages, touch on the conversation line.
Outside of the basic functions that were available when creating a new message, the employee will also be able to do the following when pressing and holding on a message:
Reply Create a thread on a specific message |
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Forward |
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Copy message text |
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Edit
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Delete |
For images and documents in conversations, employees will also see an option to download to be able to view the attachment.
Once the attachment is downloaded, press and hold on it to reply, forward, copy and delete.