Removing medical alerts

You can remove medical alerts for problems (medical conditions), medications, and allergies from a patient's record.

Notes:

Alternatively, you can inactivate a medical alert.

Removing medical alerts from patients requires the "Medical Alerts, Edit" security right.

To remove a medical alert from a patient

In the Medical Alerts dialog box, select a medical alert in the Problems, Medications/Prescriptions, or Allergies list.

Click the Delete Alert button .

A confirmation message appears.

Click Yes.

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 remove 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 remove 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.