About Comment Fields on the Patient EDM (Working With the EDM for Sun Master Patient Index)

Working With the EDM for Sun Master Patient Index

About Comment Fields on the Patient EDM

The fields located on the Comments view of the View/Edit page allow you to view any comments associated with a patient profile. Header fields appear at the top of the page to help you identify the patient whose profile you are viewing.

Note –

The fields on the Comments view are configurable, and might have been modified or hidden by the system administrator. For more information about fields on this page that differ from those listed below, see the system administrator. The field descriptions below describe the fields in the default configuration.

Table 10 Comment Fields


This field …	displays this information ...
Identifying Fields
Last Name	The patient’s last name.
First Name	The patient’s first name
DOB	The month, day, and year that the patient was born.
Gender	The gender of the patient.
Comment Fields
Comment Code	An identification code for the comment that must be unique to each system record. The code must also be unique to the patient profile in order for all comments to appear in the SBR.
Enter Date	The date and time that the displayed comment was created.
Comment Text	The text of the comment.