Name Format settings

• Click the Admin tab.

• Click the Settings tab.

• Scroll down to Person Name Settings section.

• Set the format and click Format.

The administrator defines the formats used when displaying names in worklists, reports, summaries and elsewhere in the system. To define the date format,

1. Go to the Settings page

2. Scroll down to the Person Name Settings section.

3. Select the order of name components for a name on a list, List Format.

4. Select the order of name components when using a name in free form text.

5. Select the Person Name Filter setting for which name components are displayed.

6. Click the Format button to save the changes.

Names appear in one of two forms. The first form is a name on a list, such as the name of a patient or physician on the worklist. The second form is when the name appears in common text. Names in lists may appear one way, such as “DOE, JOHN Q”, and names in normal text to appear another, such as “JOHN Q. DOE.” To set the default name format, go to the Name Formatting section on the Server page. For both the common name and list name, select the name component from the pull-down list and enter the component separators, if necessary. To leave a component empty, select <empty>. When finished, click Format.

When entering a name into a field, it is beneficial to separate it into first name, last name, middle name, a prefix and a suffix. When a single field is used, the user must manually separate the name parts using a caret (^) character between the individual names, in the order lastname^firstname^middlename^prefix^suffix. The Use Person Name Filter setting defines how many text fields are used for entering a name.