Entering Patient IDs Manually
Entering Patient IDs Manually
If you do not have a bar code scanner, you can enter patient ID information manually. In the Select Patient
ID screen you can enter alphabetic and numeric characters.
To manually enter patient ID information:
Step
Action
1
In the Line List display, press the ID soft key.
2
Press the New Pat soft key. The Select Patient ID screen appears.
3
To enter letters, press the ABC... soft key; to enter numbers, press the 123... soft key.
4
Use the Up and Down buttons to scroll through the list of characters.
5
Press the OK button to accept a letter or number and move the cursor to the next space.
Note: Press the Back Space soft key to clear the last character you entered; press the Prev Screen soft key
to erase the entire entry and return to the Select ID screen.
6
After you enter all patient ID information, press the Save->Main soft key. The Patient ID Confirmation
screen appears.
7
Review the information in the screen.
8
If you take measurements within 30 seconds of saving the patient ID, the measurements are saved under
the patient ID you just created.
If you do not take a measurement within 30 seconds, the patient ID will not be saved.
Note—
Adding Measurements to an Existing Patient Record
To add measurements to the record of a patient already entered in the system or to view the records for an
existing patient, use the following procedure.
Step
Action
1
From the Line List display, press the ID soft key. The Select ID screen appears.
2
Press the Up button until the desired patient ID appears.
3
If you want to verify that the selected patient is the one you are looking for, press the View Pat soft key.
The screen displays the four most recent measurements for the selected patient.
4
Press the
patient ID.
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Entering Patient ID Information
• If the information is correct, press the Save->Main soft key to save the entry and return to the Line
List display.
• If the information is not correct, press the Prev. Screen soft key to return to the Patient ID Input
screen. Make the corrections and press the Save->Main soft key.
Save → Main
soft key. The next series of measurements will be assigned to the selected