Adding emergency contact information to patients

In Dentrix Ascend, you can record a patient's emergency contact information. Also, if a patient enters emergency contact information on a patient form (new style of form only), that information will be updated automatically in the patient's record in Dentrix Ascend.

To add an emergency contact person

1. When entering or updating patient information, select the Related Patients tab.

   

2. Under Emergency Contact, do one of the following:

   • Click Add New Contact. In the Add Emergency Contact dialog box, enter the emergency contact person's name, phone number, and relationship to the patient (optional), and then click Save.

     

   • Click Copy Primary Contact Info.

     Note: This button is available only if the selected patient is not his or her own primary contact.

   The information appears.

   Entered manually

   Copied from primary contact

Notes:

• If you copied the primary contact person's information for the emergency contact person, the relationship to the patient is "Primary Contact" by default, but you can change it. Also, if the primary contact person does not have a phone number associated with his or her record, you can add a phone number to the emergency contact information.

• To edit the emergency contact person’s information, click the Edit icon .

• To remove the emergency contact person’s information, click the X.