You can delete medical encounters from a patient's record.
Note: Accessing a patient's medical encounters requires the "Medical Encounters, Open" security right. To view a medical encounter before deleting it requires the "Medical Encounters, Edit" security right. Deleting medical encounters requires the "Medical Encounters, Delete" security right and requires that user verification not be assigned for the "Medical Encounters, Delete" task.
To delete a medical encounter
With a patient selected in Chart, do one of the following:
Click
the Medical Encounters button
on the toolbar.
On the File menu, click Medical Encounters.
If applicable, do one of the following:
If the Password - Medical Encounters, Open dialog box appears, user verification has been assigned to the "Medical Encounters, Open" task. Do one of the following:
If your user account has been granted the "Medical Encounters, Open" security right, enter your credentials in the User ID and Password boxes, and then click OK.
If your user account has not been granted the "Medical Encounters, Open" security right, have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can access medical encounters this one time. The overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
If a message appears, informing you that you do not have rights to this operation, your user account has not been granted the "Medical Encounters, Open" security right. To have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can access medical encounters this one time, do the following:
On the message, click Yes.
In the Password - Medical Encounters, Open dialog box, the overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
The Medical Encounters dialog box appears.
Do one of the following:
To delete
a medical encounter without viewing it first, select that medical encounter,
and then click the Delete button
.
To view and then delete a medical encounter, do the following:
Select a medical encounter, and then
click the Edit button 
.
If applicable, do one of the following:
If the Medical Encounters, Edit dialog box appears, user verification has been assigned to the "Medical Encounters, Edit" task. Do one of the following:
If your user account has been granted the "Medical Encounters, Edit" security right, enter your credentials in the User ID and Password boxes, and then click OK.
If your user account has not been granted the "Medical Encounters, Edit" security right, have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can edit a medical encounter this one time. The overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
If a message appears, informing you that you do not have rights to this operation, your user account has not been granted the "Medical Encounters, Edit" security right. To have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can edit a medical encounter this one time, do the following:
On the message, click Yes.
In the Medical Encounters, Edit dialog box, the overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
The Edit Medical Encounter(s) dialog box appears.
Click Delete.
A confirmation message appears.
Click Yes.