Correcting a patient name once an appointment has been created, the following are the correct steps to follow to eliminate the duplicating an EMR record by deleting and recreating the appointment with the corrected patient name.
1)Go to the Patient File and make the correction to the Patient Name
2)Go to the Patient appointment in the scheduler and open the appointment, once the appointment is opened save the appointment
This will save the corrected name to the appointment and EMR record and not create a second EMR record.
