You can edit the medical alerts for allergies that are assigned to a patient's record.
Note: Editing medical alerts that are assigned to patients requires the "Medical Alerts, Edit" security right.
To edit an allergy
In the Medical Alerts dialog box, select an allergy in the Allergies list.
Click
the View/Edit Alert button 
.
If applicable, do one of the following:
If the Password - Medical Alerts, Edit dialog box appears, user verification has been assigned to the "Medical Alerts, Edit" task. Do one of the following:
If your user account has been granted the "Medical Alerts, 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 Alerts, Edit" security right, have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can edit a medical alert 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 Alerts, Edit" security right. To have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can edit a medical alert this one time, do the following:
On the message, click Yes.
In the Password - Medical Alerts, Edit dialog box, the overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
The Edit Patient Allergy Alert dialog box appears.
Change any of the following options:
Discovery Date - The date that you found out about the allergy. To specify a different date, do any of the following:
To enter a date, do any of the following:
To change the month, click the month portion of the date and then enter a month as a 1-digit or 2-digit number.
To change the day, click the day portion of the date and then enter a day as a 1-digit or 2-digit number.
To change the year, click the year portion of the date and then enter a year as a 2-digit or 4-digit number.
To select a date, do the following:
Click the calendar icon to view a month calendar.
Navigate to the correct month using the left and right arrows.
Note: To quickly change the year and month, click the month-year at the top of the calendar, navigate to the correct year using the left and right arrows, and then click the correct month.
Click the correct day.
End Date - Do one of the following:
If the patient no longer experiences the allergy and knows when that occurred, clear the No End Date or End Date Unknown checkbox, and then specify the date when the patient no longer experienced the allergy by doing any of the following:
To enter a date, do any of the following:
To change the month, click the month portion of the date and then enter a month as a 1-digit or 2-digit number.
To change the day, click the day portion of the date and then enter a day as a 1-digit or 2-digit number.
To change the year, click the year portion of the date and then enter a year as a 2-digit or 4-digit number.
To select a date, do the following:
Click the calendar icon to view a month calendar.
Navigate to the correct month using the left and right arrows.
Note: To quickly change the year and month, click the month-year at the top of the calendar, navigate to the correct year using the left and right arrows, and then click the correct month.
Click the correct day.
If the patient still experiences the allergy or cannot provide the date when he or she stopped experiencing it, select the No End Date or End Date Unknown checkbox.
Encounter # - The encounter number
that is associated with this allergy. Enter the correct encounter number,
or click the search button 
to select one.
Confirmation Status - The confirmation status of the allergy. Select one of the following options: Confirmed, Unconfirmed, or Unknown.
Select Alert - If you need to change
the allergy, click the search button to select a
different allergy.
Note: The Allergen Type, SNOMED, ICD-9, ICD-10, Medispan, and RxNorm codes that are associated with the selected allergy appear for your reference.
Severity - The severity that is associated with this allergy. To select a severity, do the following:
Click the search button .
The Select Severity dialog box appears.
If the severity that you want to add is not in the list, to add that severity, click New.
Note: Adding a severity definition requires the "Practice Definitions Setup" security right.
In the list, select the correct severity.
Click Ok.
Reactions - The reactions (and their severities) that are associated with this allergy. To select, edit, or remove reactions, do the following:
Click the search button .
The Allergy Reaction/Severity List dialog box appears.
For each reaction-severity combination that you want to add, do the following:
Click Add.
The Edit Allergy Reaction and Severity dialog box appears.
Click
the Reaction search button 
.
The Select Reaction dialog box appears.
If the reaction that you want to add is not in the list, to add that reaction, click New.
Note: Adding a reaction definition requires the "Practice Definitions Setup" security right.
In the list, select the correct reaction.
Click Ok.
Click
the Severity search button .
The Select Severity dialog box appears.
If the severity that you want to add is not in the list, to add that severity, click New.
Note: Adding a severity definition requires the "Practice Definitions Setup" security right.
In the list, select the correct severity.
Click Ok.
For each reaction-severity combination that you want to edit, do the following:
Select the reaction-severity.
Click Edit.
The Edit Allergy Reaction and Severity dialog box appears.
Click
the Reaction search button .
The Select Reaction dialog box appears.
If the reaction that you want to select is not in the list, to add that reaction, click New.
Note: Adding a reaction definition requires the "Practice Definitions Setup" security right.
In the list, select the correct reaction.
Click Ok.
Click
the Severity search button .
The Select Severity dialog box appears.
If the severity that you want to select is not in the list, to add that severity, click New.
Note: Adding a severity definition requires the "Practice Definitions Setup" security right.
In the list, select the correct severity.
Click Ok.
For each reaction-severity combination that you want to remove, do the following:
Select the reaction-severity.
Click Delete.
Notes - Any notes regarding the
allergy. To check the spelling of the note text, click the Check
Spelling button 
(this button is available only if a certain preference
setting has been enabled).
Click OK.