What you should know
Allows you to create patient records (encounters) for patients according to their corresponding admission events and areas : Outpatients, Hospitalization, Day Care, Delivery Room, etc.
Allows you to enter physician data for those doctors who will be admitting, attending and refers, as well as their specialty. It also indicates the dates of arrival, admission and onset of symptoms, the reason for consultation and observations.
You can also merge data for two encounters.
Important :
In order for you to indicate the arrival of a pregnant patient (whether for consultation or during labor) in this window, two basic rules must be met:
This patient must be a woman
This patient must be at least 8 years old.
If these two rules are not met, you will not be able to activate the Is Pregnant check:
To register a newborn, it is through the Newborn Registration portal:
Benefits
Allows you to perform and collect charges for any encounter
Create Encounter
1. Go to Current Encounters window or click context menu in Patient Registration and registering any patient and select Create Encounter.
If you have entered from Patient Registration window you will be addressed straight to point 4.
2. If you entered from search menu, click New Record
3. Now enter patient name and confirm
You will be addressed to the Encounter window where you must enter admitting information for this patient.
After you have completed the admitting process, click Save.
After this, a new Patient Encounter will be assigned to your patient. Now you can start encounter processes.
