Editing Previous Progress Notes
Edit Progress Notes on the day they are recorded.
Before you begin
Progress Notes can be edited on the day they are recorded, until midnight of that day, after which they become permanent records. You can append additional notes to these permanent records.
Procedure
To edit a Progress Note
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Select the Progress tab in the patient's
clinical record.
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Select a previous entry from the list at the upper-right of the window. The notes for that particular visit are then displayed in the lower-right of the window.
Tip:To find text entered in a previous progress note, click Search, type the text to search for and click Search.
Progress Note entries that contain the search string are highlighted in red. -
To add additional notes to the selected record, click
Append. A secondary window appears, populated with the
practitioner's name and the current date. Add your additional notes in this window.
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To view any diagrams that have been drawn during the previous selected visit, click
Diagrams. If the button is not available, no diagrams were
drawn for the selected Progress Note.
- Click Save.