SynapseDirect

Hello, I am new to SynapseDirect. Having gone through the training video I know how to add patient details. However I cannot figure out how do I delete a patient?. Thanks

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There is no facility to delete a patient.  This is intentional.

If you were just experimenting, then you can download a new database and start from scratch again. 

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Graham Chiu
Beta Downloads and Documentation Wiki

Certainly is a common question for new testers.

We do need to have a patient status, maybe deleted would be a status as well.

I have alot of dead patients still coming up in searches ... I'd like to find a way of eliminating them from searches and data mining.

 

 

 

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So, you want flags for patients who have deceased, and for those who have left your practice?

 

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Graham Chiu
Beta Downloads and Documentation Wiki

deceased, left practiced, no longer active... (i think i have seen this checkbox somewhere), or as i have had...staff errors that put a patient into the database accidentally ... or multiple instances for the same patient. When it was caught the 2 were merged...manually. and the we changed the second instancesname to ERRORJohn ERRORDoe but it would have been nice to make him disappear entirely.  I suppose, if i really wanted to and had the time i could perform the ?Rebol equivalent of an sql command to delete the fields.  For practices that are busy i could see staff easily duplicating records for the same patient inadvertently and a situation where you would want to delete...or flag out of existence.
just my 2 cents on down time.

What's the difference between left the practice and no longer active?

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Graham Chiu
Beta Downloads and Documentation Wiki

Graham:

What's the difference between left the practice and no longer active?

The point here is that there should be end-user definable options.

I'd say they are similar, but "left practice" = definite, and "no longer active" = haven't been around in a long while.

For me I will need to keep track of things like:

Is the patient "Rostered" ?  or is the patient Fee For Service ?  Did the patient refuse rostering or did I suggest not to roster ?

We might want to be able to search for archived patients.

Really, different practices will have different needs to computerize a patient's status.

I don't think just one variable will cover the options.

 

For a bigger group, they might have programs such as a Diabetes Program or a COPD program.  These groups would want to flag a patient's chart that they are involved in a certain program.  Maybe an aggressive billing doctor would want to flag patients whom have excellent insurance to treat them differently in their practice.   

 

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I need a way to mark the patient's status.

dead

moved

whatever I want

Any ideas here ? 

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Where on the screen do you think it might fit?

 

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Graham Chiu
Beta Downloads and Documentation Wiki

No idea.

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Jason:

No idea.

Maybe there would be room for a small flag on the patient screen, near their name.  Maybe it could be a column on the table GUI when looking a the que of patient names on the search screen.  I agree with Jason that the ability to flag the status of a patient is pretty important to a lot of practices.  BTW, can Synapse track all the name and address changes a patient has ever had?  This is a CCHIT standard that also seems important to me.

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>>   BTW, can Synapse track all the name and address changes a patient has ever had?  This is a CCHIT standard that also seems important to me.

Not at this time.  It could be easily added though using a trigger in the database.

 

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Graham Chiu
Beta Downloads and Documentation Wiki

>>   BTW, can Synapse track all the name and address changes a patient has ever had?

Interesting requirement.

I can't say I'd be that interested in it, but it sounds relatively easy to do. 

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jparkdo:

I agree with Jason that the ability to flag the status of a patient is pretty important to a lot of practices.  BTW, can Synapse track all the name and address changes a patient has ever had?  This is a CCHIT standard that also seems important to me.

ReThinking this lately.

 

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