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Social Security Number SSN - showing up in patient search in EMR

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angelahunsberger

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Is there a way to prevent the patient's SSN from showing up in the search results in EMR? We collect the SSN for a variety of reasons but it displays with a simple search. This leaves room for risk.

Has anyone found a solution for this problem?
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Posted : January 4, 2017 3:32 am

lkeith

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I would be interested in this as well if someone has discovered an answer to this.

Posted : January 4, 2017 4:59 am

acantu

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There is currently no way of hiding this. I have brought this up many times to GE, but they refuse to remove it since multiple office search for patients with their social.

Posted : January 5, 2017 3:53 am

gpincomb

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We have looked into this as well, but without a way to do it via the application. We do, however, offer our patients the opportunity to use the last 4 digits of the SSN (zero filled) or to not use their SSN at all.

Posted : January 6, 2017 7:20 am

gibsonmi

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You can do this with a modification of mldefs.txt in the client directory. Search for _FindPatient and comment out the line starting Field: SSN. I did this three days ago and apart from hiding the SSN in the Find Patient dialog I have not seen it affect anything else. You can even continue to search for patients by SSN.

Posted : January 6, 2017 7:34 am

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