Whether it is for ChiroPadEMR SOAP note documentation and narrative reports, ChiroOffice billing, marketing, management reports, or anything else that is necessary to running the business of your practice, it is critically necessary to enter each patient’s information in the ChiroSuiteEHR system. This process begins at the instant a potential patient has arrived in your office, when he/she has the status of a new patient. At some point in the future, it will be necessary to update the information in the patient’s electronic file.
To add a new patient to ChiroSuiteEHR, from either the ChiroOffice or ChiroPadEMR sections of the system, there are 2 options. Option 1, from either section, select File ► New Patient as shown in Figure 1. This opens the patient’s general information window (Figure 3).
Figure 1
For option 2, select the New patient button from the Front Desk, as shown in Figure 2.
Both options open the patient’s general information window (Figure 3). This window is divided into seven tab sections. The tabs are Personal, Financial, Occupation, Responsible Party, Representing Attorney, and User Defined Information. One tab, Scanned Documents, is not visible until the new patient’s data has been entered and the file has been saved. Another tab, Responsible Party, is for use only in the ChiroPadEMR section of ChiroSuiteEHR when the office does not have the ChiroOffice portion installed. It is a backup for insurance information that is usually entered in ChiroOffice and is not necessary for those using the complete ChiroSuiteEHR system.