User Guide — View-Only Permission for Clinicals

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The View Only Clinicals user permission allows your practice to grant limited athenaClinicals access to selected users.

 

The permission can be used in combination with other roles. For example, billing staff members may need to verify patient chart information. With the View Only Clinicals role, they can view but not edit the patient chart.

 

You can also use the View Only Clinicals with Printing role to allow a staff member to print, as well as view, the patient chart.

 

Users can view, but not edit, the Quickview, the patient chart, or documents such as prescriptions and lab results.

 

Users can also access the following pages and tools:

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Today's Appointments

View Staff Calendar

View Department Calendar

Document Search — When you search, the documents appear in the patient chart.

Find patient tool — The Find Claim function is not available.

 

For users with the View Only Clinicals user permission, the Patient Actions Bar includes only the Registration menu and the Clinicals menu.

 

Note: Print Chart appears only for users with the View Only Clinicals with Printing role.

 

All chart sections and information are visible, and you can click the sections in the patient chart to see the expanded version of each section.

 

The print chart link appears only for users with the View Only Clinicals with Printing role.

 

Users with the View Only Clinicals with Printing permission can print many items from the patient chart, including orders, results, and Medication and Vaccine Lists. These users cannot print clinical forms.

 

 

 

 

Providers need to find patients quickly and view information on the patient chart, recent encounters, OB episodes, and flowsheets.

 

You can assign the View Only Clinicals role or the View Only Clinicals with Printing role to these users to support these use cases:

  • ER doctors need to see social history, medications, allergies, etc.
  • Hospital nurses should be allowed to print the medication list and view the chart.
  • OB doctors need to see the OB episode and chart during delivery.
  • Residents may find it useful to view items and use the document history to see whether their attending physicians made any changes.
  • Hospitalists need access to medications, allergies, social history, etc.

You can assign the View Only Clinicals role in combination with other roles to these non-clinical users to support these use cases:

  • Billing staff needs edit access for billing items, but may need to view the chart, find claims, and add claim attachments.
  • Compliance staff needs to run reports and view charts. They also need access to document history and audit history.
  • Administrative users may need view-only access to clinical information.
  • Auditors need access to chart summaries to see whether they were billed appropriately