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

Working With the EDM for Sun Master Patient Index

About Telephone Fields on the Patient EDM

The fields located on the Phone view of the View/Edit page allow you to view detailed telephone information for the displayed 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 Phone view are configurable, and might have been modified or removed. For more information about fields on your Phone view that differ from those listed below, see the system administrator. The field descriptions below describe the fields in the default configuration.

Table 7 Telephone 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.
Telephone Fields
Phone Type	The type of telephone number you are viewing, such as home, work, cellular, and so on.
Phone	The telephone number for the specified Phone Type.
Ext	The extension to the telephone number, if any.