# Update Your Patient's Telephone Numbers

#### Note:

The Patient Bar plug-in is a work in progress. Specific features may undergo minor or significant changes as the plug-in iterates toward national release. The following descriptions and instructions apply solely to the software's state as it existed at the time of this writing.

The Patient Bar plug-in includes a feature that enables you to update or add phone numbers from within the application's demographics pop-up pane; the plug-in then writes the updated numbers back to VistA, where they will be available to CPRS and other clinical applications.

To update patients' telephone numbers:

1. Click the Edit button at the bottom of the Demographics pop-up pane.
2. Click the data-entry boxes adjacent to the phone numbers and type the updated numbers. The update capability is currently available for patients' Home Phone, Cell Phone, Work Phone, Emergency Phone, and Next of Kin Phone numbers.
3. Click the remove () icon to clear an existing phone number.
4. Click Done or Cancel to accept or cancel your changes, respectively

#### Note:

You can currently edit the Emergency Contact Phone and Next of Kin Phone numbers only if these fields already contain entries.

## Clinical Practice Environment

With its CPE (Clinical Practice Environment) application, the HMP Team Facing framework delivers software that serves healthcare teams and helps meet their needs in caring for our veterans. CPE software will help transition Veterans Health Administration from a chart-centric model of care to a team-based, patient-centered model of care through advanced clinical software and a modern software architecture. This software represents an effort to reestablish close clinician-IT collaborative relationships and to build field-driven, web-based modules that meet the following functional and technology goals.

- Functional Goals:
  - Comprehensive, coded, integrated data
  - Knowledge-driven, context-based decision support
  - Role- and conditions-based workflow-driven systems
  - Multi-patient, team-based care
- Technology Goals:
  - Open source, with a service-oriented architecture (SOA)
  - Web-based, with a flexible, scalable architecture
  - Context-aware, with an extensible, modular platform