Noah offers the ability to manually number patients instead of automatic numbering. This can be useful if you have other patient management systems and want your patients to have the same ID between all of your systems.
Please note that you will need to manually enter a patient ID every time you add a patient with manual patient numbering enabled.
You can switch to manual numbering by opening the Noah console and then going to the Patient Numbering Tool under Server Administration:
Common Questions and Answers
1. How do I see the patient number in the patient list?
To see the Patient Number in the patient list, enable ‘Patient no.’ in the drop-down menu for the patient list:
2. If I switch to manual numbering is there a maximum or minimum length for the Patient Number?
There is no minimum length for the Patient Number. There is a maximum length of 20 characters.
3. If I switch to manual numbering and I then decide this was a mistake and switch back to automatic numbering, will I break things?
If you switch back to automatic numbering from manual numbering, Noah will automatically re-number all the patients in the database, including patients with manually entered Patient Numbers, and you will lose all of the manually entered Patient Numbers.
4. Since the auto-numbered Patient Numbers all seem to start with zeros, would having a manually entered ID that is the same as an existing one but without the zeros cause a duplication warning? For example, if a current Patient Number is “0023654” and I enter a new patient with manually entered number of “23654”, can those co-exist?
Yes, they can co-exist, as they are seen as different Patient Numbers.
5. If I use manual numbering, can the Patient Number contain all characters or just numbers?
The Patient Number can use all characters.
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