Practice Management on Embodia - Part 2: Scheduling - Examples of patient properties

Setting up your clinic

The actions described in this lesson require a Manager permission on your clinic.

This help article will provide some common examples of patient properties.

Patient properties are used to collect important information that doesn’t change frequently, such as the patient's phone number, physician’s name/phone number, referral source, etc. Patient properties can be different kinds of questions. To learn how to create patient properties, please refer to the help article, Using patient properties.

Here are the question types you can use when setting up patient properties, and examples of how each question type can be used:

Patient property question type	Examples of what this property type can be used for
Address	Patient address
Birth date	Patient date of birth
Date	Any other important dates that are not a DOB
Date with distance to today summary	Lets you track how long ago an injury (or other event) happened
Drop down	Storing name of the person who refered the patient to you
Due date	Patient due date
Multi-line text	General notes about the patient, e.g., hobbies, recent vacation
Number	Any number that is not a phone number, e.g., number of children
Phone number	Any phone number, e.g., patient phone number; emergency contact phone number
Radio button	Patient gender; patient sex;
Short text	Emergency contact name

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