View the Visit Summary for a Past Visit in Patient Portal
Visit summaries are documents created by Patient Portal after a patient's visit with a care team. Visit summaries can provide an overview of what occurred during the visit in relation to your overall health history.
- Documents might be unavailable until a few days after your visit. Contact your provider's office or care team if you have any questions.
- Visit summaries are also displayed in the Documents section of your health profile.
To view a visit summary:
- If you manage multiple connected health profiles, optionally switch to a different health profile.
- From the navigation menu, select Visits. The Visits page is displayed.
- Select Past to a list of your past visits.
- Select a past visit to view its details. Any available attachments are also displayed.
- Select any document name to open it.
- Optionally, select Print to print the document.
Visit summaries can include any of the following types of details:
- Patient name
- Provider’s office contact information
- Date and location of the visit
- An updated medication list
- Updated vital signs
- Reasons for the visit
- Procedures that occurred
- Any instructions based on clinical discussions that took place during the office visit
- Any updates to health conditions
- Immunizations or medications administered during the visit
- Summary of topics discussed during the visit
- Time and location of the next appointment or testing if scheduled (or a recommended appointment time if not scheduled)
- List of other appointments and tests that needs to be scheduled with contact information
- Recommended patient decision aids
- Laboratory and other diagnostic test orders
- Test and laboratory results (if received up to 24 hours after visit)
- Symptoms