Transferring Patients to another Provider in a Practice
If you have a client who needs to be seen by another therapist in your group, you can ‘share’ the demographic data and your session notes with another clinician without having to re-enter the patient.
Depending on the record owner, here are two options:
If the group is the owner of the records this provider produces:
Required Role: Owner, Manager, or Therapist (Provider) who is currently treating the client
Steps:
- Go to Clients (left menu)
- Click on the client from the list, and click Records (top tab)
- Scroll to the Chart Sharing section (last one)
- Choose the therapist’s name who you will be sharing with, expanding the section if not already
- To the right of their name, click the button (far right)
- Review the screen and decide if private notes will or will not be shared
- By default, the private notes are not shared
- Click
- You should see this banner at the top of the screen confirming:
If you wish to End Sharing notes with another provider, repeat the process but choose shown here:
If the Therapist (provider) owns their patient records:
Required Role: Therapist (Provider) who is currently treating the client
Steps:
- Go to Clients (left menu)
- Click on the client from the list, and click Records (top tab)
- Scroll to the Chart Sharing section (last one)
- Choose the therapist’s name who you will be sharing with, expanding the section if not already
- To the right of their name, click the button (far right)
- Review the screen and decide if private notes will or will not be shared
- By default, the private notes are not shared
- Click
- You should see this banner at the top of the screen confirming:
If you wish to End Sharing notes with another provider, repeat the process but choose shown here: