Update Patient Demographics
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adt,
clinic software,
clinics,
healthcare,
his,
hospital information system,
hospital software,
master patient index,
medical office software,
medical offices,
mobile clinic,
mobile clinics,
mpi,
patient information,
patient registration,
pdm,
physician practice,
pims,
practice management,
productive data management,
registration,
AA Clinic,
AA Enterprise,
AA Facility,
AA Hospital,
AA Pharmacy,
AA Physician,
CC Admissions,
CC Registration,
EE Patient History,
HH Patient
You use the Update Patient function to update demographic information, including the patient's name, birth date, marital status, addresses, and special handling codes. If you update the patient information here, it will also be reflected in the patient registration screen.
To enter or update patient demographics:
- Enter the patient's name in the Patient Name field. Enter the patient's last name, a comma, and the first name (for example, SMITH, JANE).
- Enter the patient's birth date in the DOB field. Enter the date of birth in the MMDDYYYY format with leading zeros for single digit numbers (for example, 06041940 for June 4, 1940).
- Enter the patient's social security number in the SSN field. You can use all 9's if you need.
- Select M for male, F for female, or U for unknown.
- Select the code for the patient's marital status in the Marital Status field.The codes for the marital status are M for married, S for single, D for divorced, P for separated, W for widowed, or U for unknown.
- Enter the patient's mailing address in the Mail Address, City, State and Zip fields.
- Enter the county in which the patient lives in the County field.
- Enter the patient's telephone number in the Telephone fields.
- If the mailing and home address are the same, press the Copy Mail Address button.
- Enter any other patient information you have.
- Check that the information is correct and press Enter or click OK.
