Patient Medical Alerts

Patient medical alerts identify any potential medical problems a patient may have, and list them for providers and faculty. If the selected patient has one or more medical alerts, problems, or allergies, the alert can be viewed in two places:

A red Alert indicator on the status bar.

The EHR module > odontogram > Alerts tab.

Review Patient Medical Alerts

From the status bar, click the Alert indicator to display the Patient Medical Alerts window.

Note: You can also open the EHR module > Alerts tab > right-click and select Update/Review Medical Alerts to display the Patient Medical Alerts window.

Select and/or deselect the following checkboxes to filter the displayed alerts.

Show Alerts
Show Allergies
Show Medical Problems
Show Active only
Show Deleted

Select and review a listed alert.
(Optional) Next to the Alert field, click the Info () icon to display the Medline Plus site open to the correct alert.

Note: If the patient’s language is set to Spanish, the site displays in Spanish