Adding addenda to clinical notes

You can use clinical notes to enter notes for an exam that are not specific to a procedure. Once you move a clinical note to history, you cannot edit or delete it. However, you can add an addendum to a clinical note in history.

To add an addendum to a clinical note

1.   Select a patient.

2.   In the Chart toolbar, click Clinical Notes.

The Clinical Notes dialog box appears.

3.   Click the Note Date search button, and select the date that you want to append to the note.

4.   Click Append to Note.

The Append to Clinical Note dialog box appears.

5.   Type the note that you want to append and click OK.

A message appears informing you that once you append a note, you cannot edit it.

6.   To append the note, click Yes.