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Patient Homepage - Demographic Slice

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Patient Homepage - Demographic Slice

Owned by Mhairi West
Last updated: Dec 21, 2022
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This is the bar along the top of the screen which shows the most important information relating to the patient, regardless of the ‘page’ of the patients file you are viewing.

There are various sub menus accessible via the demographic slice, in a vertical list. Clicking on these links will change the information shown on the right hand side of the demographic slice, highlighted by the black frame below.

Link in demographic slice

 

Link in demographic slice

 

Status

This is the default display

In the red frame, there is a summary of the patient’s pregnancy history

  • G - Number of pregnancies

  • P - Number of deliveries

  • Sab - Spontaneous abortion

  • Tab - Therapeutic abortion

  • Ect - Ectopic pregnancies

  • Liv - Live births

  • Preterm - Preterm deliveries

  • Fullterm – Full grown pregnancies

This can be linked to Progress Notes - more about this is Progress note templates

  1. In the green frame, any alerts set for this patient will show up here.

  2. In the blue frame any orders generated related to this patient orders will show up here.

Gravidity is defined as the number of times that a woman has been pregnant and parity is defined as the number of times that she has given birth regardless of whether the child was born alive or was stillborn.

IDEAS calculates gravidity and parity as follows:

A woman who conceives and delivers twins is G=1 P=1 Live=2

Phones/Email

Note that the phone number are listed in order by priority based on the priority specified when they were entered into the Basic details section of the Demographics folder. There are only 3 phone numbers visible. When a "temporary phone number" is present and the dates relevant to it fit within the current date then it too will be displayed.

Physicians

This shows the physicians related to the selected patient. This information is taken from the physicians/staff tab of the demographic details folder, as indicated by the highlighted areas below.

Financial

Shows information from the billing section;

More Info

This one is different than the others in that it will fill the space below the "demographic slice". To remove the display once you have found what you want in it, simply click the "More info" link again. Alternately you may click on any other "link" or the "X" button at its upper-right. Note that much of what is shown in this display comes from the "Progress Notes" folder of the patient's file.

Demo slice and portal registration

If the patient has been registered with the patient portal, this will be indicated by an icon to the far right on the demo slice

 

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