Deleting an Auxiliary ID from a Patient Profile

If an existing auxiliary ID for a patient is no longer valid or was entered in error, you can delete the obsolete ID from the affected system record. Once an auxiliary ID is deleted from a patient profile, the deletion cannot be undone.

To Delete an Auxiliary ID From a Patient Profile

1. Using one of the search methods described in Searching for Patient Profiles, display the patient profile you want to modify on the View/Edit page.

2. To delete an auxiliary ID from a system record, do the following:

   1. Select AuxId under the appropriate system record in the EUID tree in the left portion of the View/Edit page.

   2. Under the AuxId node, select the auxiliary ID you want to remove.

   3. In the lower left portion of the page, click Remove AuxId.

3. To delete an auxiliary ID from the SBR, deselect the overwrite check boxes for all field in the address.

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   Note –

   You can only delete an auxiliary ID from the SBR if it was originally added directly to the SBR.

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4. Click Commit.

   The page refreshes, and the SBR is recalculated based on the new information.