Marking a patient as deceased

If a patient passed away, you can change the patient's status to indicate this and so that the patient is no longer an active patient.

If the patient has follow-ups and notifications for a date after the deceased date or has incomplete past follow-ups or notifications, you have the option to remove them when you change a patient’s status to deceased. The EMR then marks all of the follow-ups as complete and removes the patient from the patients to notify list. You can also archive the patient’s future appointments.

Tip: To find deceased patients, in patient searches select the Include Inactive check box and choose Deceased.

In the patient’s medical summary, a Died date appears and the label Deceased appears next to the name in Patient Maintenance. See Deceased patient banner.

Steps

1.

Search for the patient. See Searching for patients.

2.

In the search results, click the patient name and then on your keyboard, press F9 to open the Patient Maintenance window.

3.

Click the Patient Status tab.

4.

Click New Status and choose Deceased.

5.

Enter the deceased date.

6.

Optionally, enter the reason, whether an autopsy was performed and any additional notes.

7.

Click Save Status.

8.

When prompted, choose whether to archive future appointments and incomplete follow-ups and notifications.