PracSuite allows you to collect emergency contact details directly through your intake forms. This article explains how to set up a Contact Relationship for emergency contacts and add a contact field to your form template.
1. Creating a Contact Relationship
Create a contact Relationship named Emergency Contact
Select Edit and then select Add.
Enter a name for the Relationship - in this example, Emergency Contact - and the merge field short description. You can learn more about how to automatically insert emergency contact details into email and SMS templates here.
Select Save to finalise your changes.
2. Adding a Contact Field to a Form
Select the form that you want to use to request emergency contact details.
At the top of the form builder page, select Add to Form > Patient File Fields > Contact Details.
You will need to select the following:
Label - this is how the question will appear to the individual completing the form
Contact Relationship - In this example, we want to prefill this contact as the 'Emergency Contact'
Fields - Choose which information you want to capture for the contact, including which fields are required
Click Save to finalise your changes.
A preview of how the emergency contact question can appear in a form is shown below.
These details will be captured and saved in the Contacts tab of the patient file.
It's also possible to see the patient's emergency contact details on the front page of the patient file. You can learn more about pinned contacts here.