luke731 wrote on Wednesday, June 15, 2005:
Is there any way to delete information from a patient’s record?. I understand that this would probably not be a common practice, but if something was added incorrectly or added to the wrong patient record, is there any way to remove it?
drbowen wrote on Tuesday, June 21, 2005:
Yes.
Go into
Administration
then
Database Reporting
Specific items can be deleted by clicking on the small red trash can icon of the offending record. Then click on the small red icon at the bottom of the page.
You better be sure because there is no recovery from this.
Deleting from the database can cause wide spread, permanent loss of data if done incorrectly.
This type of action should only be done by the database administrator and has to logged with specific - verbose - valid reasons to do so. Your reasoning will need to be able to survive federal investigation.
avedis wrote on Wednesday, June 22, 2005:
If a service or diagnosis gets erroneously entered into an encounter you can easily remove it. Go to the Encouner page for a patient, and in the Billing section in the lower right, click on More. Then you can Clear Justification and Delete the code from that encounter.
From what I can tell, that date stays on the encounter list, but that encounter won’t show up in billing if there are no services or diagnosis codes associated with it. What I don’t see is a way to remove the encounter from the list of encounters. If you want to add a note of explanation that will show up on the list, click on Patient Encounter (below the patient’s name), while you’re still on the page for that particular encounter, and you can edit the Chief Complaint. You can also change the date of onset, but you can’t change the date of service.
drbowen wrote on Wednesday, June 22, 2005:
Sure you can.
from database reporting:
select "forms"
run sql where pid=PatientNumberOfBadInfo
click go
look for the form numbers of the encounter.
go to each form such as:
form_dictation
form_vitals
form_encounter
and delete each offending form
then delete the entries in
forms.
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This most common error is putting the information on the wrong patients chart.
The fix for this is easier. Find the pid for the correct patient and the pid of the correct patient. The easiest way to do this is to open the patients medical record and check the number in the URL. The patient number on the "find patient" result is the "pubpid" and is not always the same as the pid. To get this to work you have to use the true pid.
find the affected forms, such as:
form_dictation
form_vitals
form_encounter
forms
instead of clicking the little red trash can click on the "note pad". This is the edit button.
Open the form in edit mode and change the pid from the bad pid to the correct pid then click on go for each change.
Check that the forms show up in the correct patients chart as expected.
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Deleting from the database can cause wide spread, permanent loss of data if done incorrectly.
This type of action should only be done by the database administrator and has to logged with specific - verbose - valid reasons to do so. Your reasoning will need to be able to survive federal investigation.