Under Family Member Details, you can link patients with their family members and create family. Once the family members are linked in the system;
| • | System displays “Family Due” in each family member’s patient statement, |
| • | A consolidated statement for the complete family can be printed instead of printing separate statements for each member of the family, and |
| • | Patient Unapplied credit of one family member can be transferred to other members as per the requirements. |
Users can add the family members at the time of adding a new patient or editing an existing patient. The patient to which you are adding family members becomes primary patient, however, if required, users can make any member of the family as a primary member.
When adding family members from the Patient Demographics screen, users can set any of the family members as a primary member, who will be responsible for family. Once set as a primary, the same member can be set as a guarantor of the family. System allows setting only one member as primary per family. If no family member is set as a primary, then system considers the patient as a primary family member, in whose demographics members are being added.
To add family members:
| 1. | From the top menu bar, click Patient Search. |
| 2. | Add a new patient or edit existing patient. |
| 3. | In the Family Member Details section; |
| • | Type in few characters of the Patient name and then select a patient to be added as family member. |
| Note: When searching patients in this section, system displays the list of patients which are either primary members of the family or which are not part of any family. So you can either add the current patient to existing family or create new family. |
| • | Select Relationship from the drop-down list. |
| • | To make the family member guarantor or primary member, select check boxes accordingly. |
| • | Select the ‘Set current primary family member as guarantor’ check box if you want to select the current patient as guarantor of this family. |
| Note: This option is displayed only when you are adding family members from primary patient’s demographics. |
| 4. | Click Add. The patient is then displayed in the family members list below. |
| 5. | To delete any family member from the list, click . |
| 6. | To edit details of any family member from the list, click  . |
