Patient Keywords

A Patient Keyword is a protective word that patients can use to mask their data on the EHR. This keyword ensures that only authorized individuals can access their personal health information. Patient keywords play an important role in ensuring patient data privacy on the EHR.

A Patient Keyword is necessary to conduct certain transactions with the EHR such as:

• Accessing the patient’s EHR Profile

• Performing a Patient Compare

• Performing an EHR Profile Compare

• Creating a prescription

• Dispensing a prescription

• Adding or updating Patient Keywords or demographic data

• Adding Allergies or Conditions

• Updating the status of a prescription

• Discontinuing a dispense

• Adapting a prescription

• Adding a dispense note

 

This section contains the following topics:

• Prompting for a Patient Keyword

• Entering a Patient Keyword

• Updating a Patient Keyword

• Removing a Patient Keyword

• Handling Invalid or Missing Patient Keywords