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Patient Screen

 

Patient Details	Patient #	Computer generated number, you cant change this i.e : 13451.0
	Title	ie: Mr, Mrs, Master etc
	External ID	ID number which eClaims uses to link this patient to other programs
	Last Name	Patient’s surname
	First	Patient’s first name
	Mi	Patient’s middle initial
	Address	Patient’s address
	Resp Acct	Responsible account – the responsible party’s Patient# – same as the Patient# without the dot i.e : 12451
	City	Patient’s suburb
	State	The state of Australia that the patient lives in
	P/Code	Post Code of the suburb where the patient lives
	File / MRN	File number for the patient’s paper file. It does not automatically increment, you have to enter it manually
Medicare Details	Num	The patient’s Medicare number. Medicare number’s are a special polynomial number thus you can not put an invalid number. To  bypass enter 0.
	Exp	Expiry date and date of the Medicare Card.
	Ref #	Patients reference number on the card, can be  1-9
	VA Number	Patient’s Veteran’s Affair Number and select the VA card type from the drop down menu.
Health Fund	Health Fund	Patient’s Health Fund
	Membership	Patients health fund membership number.
	UPI	Universal Patient Identifier number
	Alias Name	Patient first name if it is different to the official first name
	Alias Surname	Patient family name if it is different to the official family name
Next of Kin	First	Patient’s next of kin contact first name
	Surname	Patient’s next of kin contact last name
	Address	Patient’s next of kin contact address
	C/S/P	City/State/Postcode
	Phone	Patient’s next of kin phone number
	Relation	Relation of next of kin to the patient
Bill To	Not Set	Bills are the responsibility of the patient.
	NOK	Forward bills to Next Of Kin
	Private	Forward bills to a private company.
Other	Admission	Admission date
	Discharge	Discharge date
	CN Period	Community Nursing Period. After entering the date this can be modified by clicking the arrow next to the date.
	From	Start of community nursing period. This is the same as CN Period date and cannot be modified.
	To	The end of the community nursing period. This date is 28 days after the CN start date.This date cannot be modified.
	CN Tools	Community Nursing Tools. Select  ADL Cognitive Behavioural, ADL Eating, ADL Personal Hygiene, ADL Toileting Continence, ADL Transfer Mobility, Carer, Lives Alone
	ADL Tool	Activities of Daily Living. Click for dropdown menu and select from RUGS III (Resource Utilisation Group version III), KATZ (KATZ index of independence), ONI/INI/ACNA (Ongoing Needs Identification)/(Initial Needs Identification)/!!MORE INFO!! ACNA, FIM/FAM, CNMDSA (Functional Independence Measure )/(Functional Assessment Measure),(Community Nursing Data Set Australia), Other
Misc	Indigenous	Select from Not Stated, No, Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
	E-Mail	Patient’s email address
	Home Phone	Patient’s home phone number
	Dr#	If the patient prefers a particular doctor in the practice, type the doctor’s number here. When you bill the patient it will default to private billing and the selected fee level.
	Work Phone	Patient’s work phone number.
	Fee#	If the patient is a privately billed patient and is billed a particular fee level, type the level here and when you bill this patient it will default to private billing and to the selected fee level.
	Mobile Num	Patient’s mobile phone number
	Sex	M = male, F = female
	DOB/Age	Date of Birth
	Arch	If ticked it will archive the patient.
	Entitle No	Patient’s Health Care card, Pensioner concession card or Commonwealth Seniors Health card.
	Exp	The expiry date of the Entitle No.
	Deceased	Indicates that the patient is deceased.
	Statem	If this is ticked it will print a statement when printing the debt collection list. If this is un-ticked it will never print a statement for this patient.
	Recall	Tick it to add a recall for the patient or to view the patient’s recalls.
	Emp Info….	Will show you the patient’s employer details.
Referring	Referring No	The number of the referring doctor in the eClaims database
	Referring Details	The name of the referring doctor
	Ref Date	The date that the referral was written by the referring Doctor
	Period	The duration of the referral.
	RefTo	The name of the specific doctor that the patient was referred to in the practice.
	First Consult	Date of first consultation between the patient and the referred doctor.
	Notes	Any notes that you wish to add to the referral.
	Sch Alert	Adds an alert when the patient is added to the scheduler. IE patient allergies
	Extra Notes	If there is not sufficient space under Notes more detailed notes can be stored here. When you add extra notes the colour of the button will become green
	Pat Verif	Opens the Patient Verification Screen
	Booked Appt	Shows a list of appointments made by the patient
	SMS	Opens the SMS screen where you can send and receive messages with the patient.
	OEC	Online Eligibility Check for Eclipse
	Clinical	Opens a link to the clients clinical software package.
	Total Family	Displays the total amount of money unpaid by the family of the patient.
	Reports	Opens the word processing / reports screen

Last Modified: 18 June 2015