See also: Adding, Editing, and Deleting Patients
In Clinical, patients are considered deleted when they are flagged as either:
Deceased, or
Patients can be deleted from Clinical by:
Selecting Patient > Open from the Clinical main screen or pressing F2 to open the Select Patient from List window, highlighting the patient in question, and pressing Delete
Selecting Patient > List from the Clinical main screen, or pressing F10 to open the Patient Database, highlighting the patient in question and pressing Delete
Merging patient records, at which time one record is discarded (and deleted) after its data has been merged with that of another
Deleting the patient from within Pracsoft; as both MedicalDirector Clinical and Pracsoft share the same patient database, changes made to a patient record in one application are reflected in the other
It is important to note that patient records are not recoverable in the case of a patient merge. In all other cases, patient records are only 'flagged' as deleted in the underlying patient database, and can be restored via the Patient Reviver utility, which is part of the MedicalDirector Maintenance Suite.
Patients that have been deleted as the result of a patient merge may possibly be restored, but only after the examination of your database by MedicalDirector Data Repair Technicians.