Patient Search

The Patient Search section of the OfficeEMR Mobile application allows a user to search for and access any patient medical record within the practice. Users can also quickly create new patients from this screen as well. Once a patient chart has been selected, a number of available actions will exist like accessing a patient's medication list, problem list, allergy list, past notes, and much more.

The OfficeEMR Mobile app allows for any user with the necessary access to search and find any patient chart that exists in OfficeEMR. This article will explain how to search for a patient.

Steps

1. Tap the Patients menu action.
   
   
2. Enter your search criteria. 
   • This search can include partial or full searches of the following elements: Patient First Name, Patient Last Name, Date of Birth, Social Security Number, Phone number or chart number.
   • Example: "jo sm" might find patient's John Smith and Joe Smoley.  
     
     
3. Tap Search.
   NOTE: The maximum number of results displayed will be based on your user setting.
   
   
4. Tap the patient's name from the list of search results to access the patient's chart.
   

The OfficeEMR Mobile app allows for any user with the necessary access to add a new patient to OfficeEMR. This article will explain how to add a new patient using the mobile application.

Steps

1. Tap the Patient menu action.
   
2. Tap the Add (+) icon.
   
3. Enter the necessary details.  Only a limited set of patient details can be added from the mobile application.
   
   
4. Click Save.
   
5. That patient's chart will be created, selected, and loaded.