!DOCTYPE html> Update Phone Numbers

Update Your Patient's Telephone Numbers

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.
    Demographics edit screen capture
  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 (screen capture remove icon) icon to clear an existing phone number.
  4. Click Done or Cancel to accept or cancel your changes, respectively
    Accept Demographics Changes screen capture

Note:

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