Managing User Aliases
When you receive an Investigation Result from a laboratory, the result should be associated with your user name as it appears in Clinical. However, this is not always the case - sometimes the laboratory may use an alias to refer to you in its system.
Consider the scenario where a user called Dr. A Practitioner receives results for multiple aliases that include 'Dr. A Practitioner', 'A. Practitioner', 'Dr. Anthony Practitioner', and 'Dr. Tony Practitioner', depending on which laboratory the results have come from. Determining which results are associated with which practitioner record in Clinical can be confusing, particularly if your database contains multiple users who have the same or similar names.
To account for this, Clinical provides a facility for managing these user aliases. This tool allows you to;
- Link one or more aliases with your user name in Clinical.
- Automatically assign all results for these aliases with your user name when the Holding File is next opened.
- Manage any alias-to-user links you have established.