What is the Medical Record Status?
Medical records need to be kept up to date. The Medical Record Status is a highly visible indication of how in-date a patient's medical record is. It indicates whether the record is in date, needs to be updated, or has not yet been created.
Location
The current status of the patient's medical record, (with the date it was last updated), displays at the top-left of the Medical tab screen, colour-coded for easy visual identification:
Statuses
Records are up-to-date. |
Records are older than the specified age, or the Update Medical History at next opportunity checkbox next to it is ticked (you can place a tick in this checkbox to force an update of the patient's medical record). |
Medical details have never been entered (this status may also appear as a blank yellow bar). |
Prompt to Update Medical History at next opportunity
You can optionally prompt an update of the medical history form for a patient:
Select (check) this check box to inform the system that the medical history form is out if date (even if it isn't), or the system has no limit set for updating medical histories.
The system will automatically uncheck this checkbox when the medical history is updated.
How do you update the Medical Record?
(See Update / edit the medical history)
Either
button at the top of the Medical tab, or button there.
