Adding a Patient to a Message Conversation

If patient information is available and no patient has been added to your conversation, you can add patient information if you have permission to do so.

  1. Select the Message tab.
  2. From the list of messages in the Secure Messages pane, select the message. The message is displayed in the pane at the right.
  3. Click the Click to attach patient info link. The Select Patient dialog box appears.

    If no patient information is available, this link does not appear.

  4. Click My Patients to see a list of patients assigned to you, or click All Patients to view a list of all available patients.
  5. Type text in the search field to limit the patient list to patients whose name matches your search text.
  6. Select the patient whose information you want to attach to this message.
  7. Click OK to close the Select Patient dialog box.

The information for the selected patient is now included in the message conversation.