# Starting a New Encounter

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There are two ways to start a new encounter:

### From your Appointments

The simplest - just let CARE sync with your EHR and pull in all your upcoming encounters. Manually created appointments will also show up on your Schedule in the Appointments tab.

When starting the session, select the upcoming encounter from the Schedule using the encounter time, patient name, etc.

### Start a Blank Encounter

You can start a blank encounter — simply click on the Encounter Tab from the top navigation bar.


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